Backmark of Webster's of Louisville, with inked identification in the recto margin. Ruffin (1794-1865) was a highly successful planter and agricultural scientist, but is known better as the die-hard Confederate who supposedly fired the first shot on Fort Sumter, thereby starting the Civil War. The 67 year-old "Fire-Eater," who had spent years traveling throughout the South arguing in favor of secession to any man of stature who would listen -- and was often dismissed as being too extremist -- was adopted by Beauregard's forces as a sort of mascot and rewarded for his devotion with the "honor" of firing the first shot, and was one of the first men to enter the fort once it fell. Too proud or too disgusted to live under Union rule, he penned a final diary entry in June of 1865 proclaiming his "unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule," wrapped himself in the Confederate flag, and shot himself in the head. Condition: Very good.
Backmark of Webster's of Louisville, with inked identification in the recto margin. Ruffin (1794-1865) was a highly successful planter and agricultural scientist, but is known better as the die-hard Confederate who supposedly fired the first shot on Fort Sumter, thereby starting the Civil War. The 67 year-old "Fire-Eater," who had spent years traveling throughout the South arguing in favor of secession to any man of stature who would listen -- and was often dismissed as being too extremist -- was adopted by Beauregard's forces as a sort of mascot and rewarded for his devotion with the "honor" of firing the first shot, and was one of the first men to enter the fort once it fell. Too proud or too disgusted to live under Union rule, he penned a final diary entry in June of 1865 proclaiming his "unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule," wrapped himself in the Confederate flag, and shot himself in the head. Condition: Very good.
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