West Point Trivia Question

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DH and I play Trivia at a local pizza place every week. We do pretty well. We've won a few times. We were behind a good bit last night heading into the Final Question, which if we got right and bet all the points, we had a good chance of winning.

Here was the question -
What West Point grad (at this point, we were thinking, we got this!) fired the 1st shot in defense of Ft Sumter?

NO CHEATING - what is your answer?

I'm on the road for work today. I will post the answer tonight.
 
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Was it Major Anderson and weren't the adversaries both USMA grads?

Anderson was an instructor at USMA and the confederate leader was a student of his?

That's my guess anyway
 
Oops my bad - he ordered firing to commence on the fort, not in defense of the fort!
 
Just remembered he was there so I thought I'd take a swag at it.
 
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