Last Shots Fired In American Civil War
NEW YORK. Aug. 21. The South fired the last shots of the American Civil War to-day, when the army, using mine detectors and modern methods of mine disposal, unearthed unexploded shells fired in the Civil War, and the great-great-grand-son of a Confederate soldier touched off the fuse that blew them up. It was the beginning of a nationwide campaign designed to show the dangers of keeping live shells as souvenirs. The shells exploded to-day were at Fort Sumter, an island off Charleston, in South Carolina, where the first shot of the Civil War was fired in 1861.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27166, 23 August 1949, Page 5
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