CIVIL WAR]. RUFFIN, EDMUND, 1794-1865, Ardent Secessionist . Autograph letter signed ("Ed:Ruffin") to an unidentified recipient, Shelburgh, 10 October 1834. 1 page, 4to, 250 x 200mm., 9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.), lightly browned, two tiny perforations (not affecting text), a few spots . A RARE LETTER FROM AN AVID CONFEDERATE A lengthy apology: "I owe you an apology for having sent to you a bill for your subscription...after it had been paid. I have no defence for it, except that some mistakes are unavoidable -- & that I have adopted such regulations in printing receipts...as will prevent any loss to subscribers...Your name being in the printed receipt shows the error to be my own clearly, but if it had not been mine, & the money never received by me..., your word to that effect would have been equally satisfactory, & would have been...readily taken..." Edmund Ruffin, agriculturalist and writer, joined the Palmetto Guard of South Carolina and accompanied them to Fort Sumter at the age of seventy-one. Legend has it he fired the first shot at Fort Sumter, but, according to Boatner, "...it would probably be more accurate that after Capt[ain] James fired the signal gun, Ruffin fired the first shot from the Stevens battery on Cummings Point," (p. 712).
CIVIL WAR]. RUFFIN, EDMUND, 1794-1865, Ardent Secessionist . Autograph letter signed ("Ed:Ruffin") to an unidentified recipient, Shelburgh, 10 October 1834. 1 page, 4to, 250 x 200mm., 9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.), lightly browned, two tiny perforations (not affecting text), a few spots . A RARE LETTER FROM AN AVID CONFEDERATE A lengthy apology: "I owe you an apology for having sent to you a bill for your subscription...after it had been paid. I have no defence for it, except that some mistakes are unavoidable -- & that I have adopted such regulations in printing receipts...as will prevent any loss to subscribers...Your name being in the printed receipt shows the error to be my own clearly, but if it had not been mine, & the money never received by me..., your word to that effect would have been equally satisfactory, & would have been...readily taken..." Edmund Ruffin, agriculturalist and writer, joined the Palmetto Guard of South Carolina and accompanied them to Fort Sumter at the age of seventy-one. Legend has it he fired the first shot at Fort Sumter, but, according to Boatner, "...it would probably be more accurate that after Capt[ain] James fired the signal gun, Ruffin fired the first shot from the Stevens battery on Cummings Point," (p. 712).
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