Question: Who fired the first shots of the civil war?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: What side fired the first shots of the civil war?
What individual fired the first shot of the civil war at 4:30 AM?
Who falsely claimed to fire the first shots of the civil war?
answer: South Carolina militia
the Confederates
Henry S. Farley
Lt. Henry S. Farley
Edmund Ruffin
Ruffin
Natural Questions answer: the Confederates (from the Wikipedia article "Battle of Fort Sumter")