The battery at Mount Pleasant was under the command of Captain Robert Martin, of the South Carolina Infantry.
[20] It is claimed that this shot was fired by Lieutenant W.C. Preston, of South Carolina.
[21] Edmund Ruffin entered the fort as a volunteer ensign of the Palmetto Guard; Captain Samuel Ferguson received the keys of Fort Sumter, and raised the Confederate flag over the ramparts; Lieutenant-colonel F.J. Moses raised the State flag. Moses has since figured as the Republican governor of South Carolina.
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