<Li> Jump up ^ The weapons in the arsenal consisted of about 18,000 muskets, 3,400 rifles, over 1,000 pistols, and a few artillery pieces including five 24 - pound field howitzers . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ When asked about that offer, Abraham Lincoln commented, "A state for a fort is no bad business ." </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Detzer comments that Ruffin claimed he fired the first shot, when Ruffin did not actually do so . </Li>

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