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Book Synopsis Edmund Ruffin Papers by : Edmund Ruffin
Download or read book Edmund Ruffin Papers written by Edmund Ruffin and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two letters from agricultural reformer and secessionist Edmund Ruffin related to his time in South Carolina during the antebellum era and the American Civil War.
Book Synopsis The Diary of Edmund Ruffin by : Edmund Ruffin
Download or read book The Diary of Edmund Ruffin written by Edmund Ruffin and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1989-10-01 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this last of the three-volume printed edition of The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, the celebrated Virginia agricultural reformer and apostle of secession chronicles the increasingly melancholy events of the last two years of the Civil War and of his own life. Apart from one brief sojourn in Charleston, Edmund Ruffin spent the last two years of the war in Virginia. Failing health and the course of the war prevented the devout Confederate from traveling to important battle sites and recording events there firsthand as he had done in the earlier years of the war. Unable to move about, Ruffin nonetheless continued to follow the war closely and to keep a daily commentary on contemporary events. This commentary provides a remarkably dispassionate and astute analysis of the declining military fortunes of the Confederacy as well as an illuminating portrait of deteriorating conditions on the home front. Yet this final volume of Ruffin’s diary is more than a record of “first impressions of public events,” as Ruffin claimed. Ruffin comments on religion, race, class, and politics. The topics he discusses range from the controversy over the enrollment of black troops and the transition to free labor at war’s end to an extended discourse on de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. As the final curtain fell on the Confederacy, the embittered southern nationalist, overwhelmed by physical maladies and familial misfortunes, resolved to take his own life. Only two months after Lee’s surrender to Grant, and less than fifty miles from Appomattox, Ruffin fired the last shot in his own private war against the Yankees—a bullet through his head. Rich in detail as well as in Ruffin’s personal beliefs, this carefully edited diary stands as one of the most valuable documents of the Civil War era.
Book Synopsis The Papers of Thomas Ruffin by : Thomas Ruffin
Download or read book The Papers of Thomas Ruffin written by Thomas Ruffin and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Edmund Ruffin, a Biography by : Betty L. Mitchell
Download or read book Edmund Ruffin, a Biography written by Betty L. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Edmund S. Ruffin Papers by : Edmund S. Ruffin
Download or read book Edmund S. Ruffin Papers written by Edmund S. Ruffin and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection consists of a check for the amount of the proceeds raised for the initial construction of the ALCOSAN building, an initial report for ALCOSAN, information and newsletters from the Koppers Company, copies of obituaries, and a photograph of Ruffin.
Book Synopsis The Diary of Edmund Ruffin: The years of hope, April 1861-June 1863 by : Edmund Ruffin
Download or read book The Diary of Edmund Ruffin: The years of hope, April 1861-June 1863 written by Edmund Ruffin and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day-to-day descriptions of the Civil War in Virginia are laced with illumination comments about civil and military leaders on both sides, the prospect of foreign intervention, the increasing strain upon the southern economy, the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the possibility of detaching the northwestern states from the East. Written by a man totally committed to the southern cause, The Diary of Edmund Ruffin is a literate, dependable source of information about the Civil War and its effects, as well as the political and social conditions in the South during the most critical period in its history. Meticulously edited by William Kauffman Scarborough, it will be of lasting value to anyone who wishes to study the Civil War from the insider's point of view.
Book Synopsis The Diary of Edmund Ruffin by : Edmund Ruffin
Download or read book The Diary of Edmund Ruffin written by Edmund Ruffin and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1977-03-01 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second of a projected three-volume edition of The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, the fiery southern nationalist records the events of the first two years of the Civil War -- from the aftermath of Fort Sumter (where Ruffin fired the first shot) to the simultaneous disasters at Gettysburg and Vicksburg that spelled doom for the Confederacy.From his advantageous position as the resident and former owner of two Virginia plantations, Ruffin was able to write a vivid eyewitness account of the early Federal campaigns against Richmond. Both of the Ruffin homesteads, Marlbourne and Beechwood, were overrun during McClellan's Peninsular Campaign of 1862, and the journal contains interesting observations about the conduct of Virginia slaves during this campaign, as well as the change it engendered in master-slave relations. Also included is a remarkable recollection of the Nat Turner revolt.The day-to-day descriptions of the Civil War in Virginia are laced with illumination comments about civil and military leaders on both sides, the prospect of foreign intervention, the increasing strain upon the southern economy, the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the possibility of detaching the northwestern states from the East.Written by a man totally committed to the southern cause, The Diary of Edmund Ruffin is a literate, dependable source of information about the Civil War and its effects, as well as the political and social conditions in the South during the most critical period in its history. Meticulously edited by William Kauffman Scarborough, it will be of lasting value to anyone who wishes to study the Civil War from the insider's point of view.
Book Synopsis Incidents of My Life by : Edmund Ruffin
Download or read book Incidents of My Life written by Edmund Ruffin and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Ruffin (794-1865) is remembered as an innovative American agriculturalist and pioneer in soil chemistry- and as an advocate of Southern secession. Here, published for the first time, are the two surviving volumes of Ruffin's manuscript memoirs, written in 1851 with additions in 1853 and 1855. Unlike Ruffin's diaries begun four years later, Incidents of My Life presents the public man, the Ruffin he wanted outsiders and posteriy to see. The volumes recount his career as a scientific farmer, his writing of An Essay on Calcareous Manures, his editing of the Farmers' Register, and the beginnings of his involvement in reform movements in the 1850s. His recollections were intended as a moral record for his heirs, focusing on himself as a good example. Also included are Ruffin's memoirs of his two daughters who died in 1855 and, as an appendix, his account of the death of his mentor, Thomas Cocke, which are useful sources for mid-nineteenth-century social history.
Book Synopsis The Papers of Thomas Ruffin by : Thomas Ruffin
Download or read book The Papers of Thomas Ruffin written by Thomas Ruffin and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nature's Management by : Edmund Ruffin
Download or read book Nature's Management written by Edmund Ruffin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History remembers Edmund Ruffin, the Virginia native believed to have fired the first shot against Fort Sumter in 1861, as one of the South's most aggressive "fire-eaters." This volume of Ruffin's work offers us his less known but equally intense passion for agricultural study. In carefully edited selections from Ruffin's writings, Jack Temple Kirby presents an innovative, progressive agronomist and pioneering conservationist. Arranged in sections discussing southern agricultural history, Ruffin's observations of nature, his ideas about land reform, and his plans for soil rejuvenation, Nature’s Management shows that Ruffin was a thinker far ahead of his time, recognizing our need to improve agriculture and to protect nature. Known as the "father of soil science" in the United States, Edmund Ruffin discovered and solved the problem of soil acidity while still in his twenties and published several papers on the subject. As the publication of his writing increased, Ruffin left his own farming business to pursue his studies. This volume contains a collection of Ruffin's essays on a variety of interrelated subjects. From the promotion of fencing and methods of malaria prevention to advocacy of a public works program and the recycling of waste, Ruffin's ideas paved the way for the early conservation movement associated with Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, and others. Nature's Management presents Ruffin's activism and innovative genius at its best, replacing the image of a southern firebrand with that of an outspoken reformer deserving of recognition.
Download or read book Ruffin written by David F. Allmendinger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allmendinger here examines the family life and reform career of a controversial antebellum Southerner. Born to a wealthy Virginia family, Edmund Ruffin lived through a revolution in family history. The book shows how he entangled his family in his causes and reveals the catastrophic personal consequences of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis The Diary of Edmund Ruffin by : Edmund Ruffin
Download or read book The Diary of Edmund Ruffin written by Edmund Ruffin and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1972-05-01 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Ruffin was one of the most significant figures in the Old South. A gentleman planter, writer, and political commentator, he made his greatest contribution as an agricultural reformer, but it was as a militant defender of slavery and champion of the southern cause that he gained his greatest fame.In his voluminous diary, Ruffin has left an invaluable primary account of the crucial years from 1856 to 1865. This volume, the first of a projected two-volume edition, covers the period from Ruffin's retirement from his Virginia plantation to the aftermath of the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April of 1861.Through the eyes of this outspoken secessionist, the reader views the chain of events which drove the nation steadily and inexorably toward disunion and civil war. An intelligent and astute commentator, Ruffin was personally acquainted with most of the prominent southern political leaders of the day, and his restless nature impelled him to be present at the most important events of the period.Ruffin attended several secession conventions, and as a member of the Palmetto Guard he was accorded the honor of firing the first shot on Fort Sumter. The diary contains vivid eyewitness accounts of the hanging of John Brown on December 2, 1859, and the activities and changing moods in Charleston during the hectic months of March and April of 1861. Ruffins' detailed description of the two-day bombardment of Sumter is unexcelled.The Diary of Edmund Ruffin is of supreme importance as a chronicle of political attitudes, moods, and motives in the South during the most critical period in its history. The journal also contains a wealth of information on travel conditions in the Old South, the reading habits and social customs of the planter aristocracy, and various aspects of the plantation-slave system.
Book Synopsis Ruffin Letters, 1856-1900 by : Edmund Ruffin (Jr.)
Download or read book Ruffin Letters, 1856-1900 written by Edmund Ruffin (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photocopies of typed transcripts of letters primarily between Edmund Ruffin Jr. and his wife, Jane.
Book Synopsis The Diary of Edmund Ruffin by : E. Ruffin
Download or read book The Diary of Edmund Ruffin written by E. Ruffin and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Edmund Ruffin, His Life and Times by : Henry G. Ellis
Download or read book Edmund Ruffin, His Life and Times written by Henry G. Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Southern Historical Society Papers by : Southern Historical Society
Download or read book Southern Historical Society Papers written by Southern Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South by : W. M. Mathew
Download or read book Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South written by W. M. Mathew and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
