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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 Edmund Ruffin, His Life and Times by : Henry Grant Ellis
Download or read book Edmund Ruffin, His Life and Times written by Henry Grant Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1909* with total page 27 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 Prophet Without Honor by : Betty L. Mitchell
Download or read book Prophet Without Honor written by Betty L. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prophet Without Honor by : Betty Lou Mitchell
Download or read book Prophet Without Honor written by Betty Lou Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 4889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 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 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aberration of Mind by : Diane Miller Sommerville
Download or read book Aberration of Mind written by Diane Miller Sommerville and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and their families, as well as the enslaved and newly freed. With a thorough examination of the dynamics of both racial and gendered dimensions of psychological distress, Sommerville reveals how the suffering experienced by Southerners living in a war zone generated trauma that, in extreme cases, led some Southerners to contemplate or act on suicidal thoughts. Sommerville recovers previously hidden stories of individuals exhibiting suicidal activity or aberrant psychological behavior she links to the war and its aftermath. This work adds crucial nuance to our understanding of how personal suffering shaped the way southerners viewed themselves in the Civil War era and underscores the full human costs of war.
Book Synopsis The Fire-Eaters by : Eric H. Walther
Download or read book The Fire-Eaters written by Eric H. Walther and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Virginia's Restive Rebel by : Lynwood Clair Barthurst
Download or read book Virginia's Restive Rebel written by Lynwood Clair Barthurst and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anticipations of the Future, to Serve as Lessons for the Present Time by : Edmund Ruffin
Download or read book Anticipations of the Future, to Serve as Lessons for the Present Time written by Edmund Ruffin and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work of his imagination the writer pictures what he apprehends will be the result of the election of Republican candidates. Lincoln is to be succeeded by Seward in 1864 and the prospect of the latter's reelection in 1868 will bring on civil war.
Book Synopsis Bulletin of the Virginia State Library by : Virginia State Library
Download or read book Bulletin of the Virginia State Library written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A List of the Portraits and Pieces of Statuary in the Virginia State Library by : Virginia State Library
Download or read book A List of the Portraits and Pieces of Statuary in the Virginia State Library written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Serpent in Eden written by Fred Hobson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appearance in 1920 of H. L. Mencken's scathing essay about the intellectual and cultural impoverishment of the South, "The Sahara of the Bozart, " set off a firestorm of reaction in the region that continued unabated for much of the next decade. In Serpent in Eden, Mencken scholar Fred Hobson examines Mencken's love-hate relationship with the South. He explores not only Mencken's savage criticism of the region but also his efforts to encourage southern writers and the bold "little magazines, " such as the Reviewer and the Double Dealer, that started up in the South during the 1920s.
Book Synopsis An Analysis of Ruffin's Farmers' Register by : Earl Gregg Swem
Download or read book An Analysis of Ruffin's Farmers' Register written by Earl Gregg Swem and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: