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A small gun fired the first shot of the Civil War in the west at Vicksburg several days before the attack on Fort Sumter in April, 1861. A large gun, the left piece of Captain Elder's Battery B, First U.S. Artillery, fired the last shot at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.
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