Ruffan, Edmund
Entry updated 16 January 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1794-1865) US farmer, slaveholder, author, and soldier in the Confederate army who reputedly fired the first shot on Fort Sumter that started the Civil War; his Future History, Anticipations of the Future [for subtitle see Checklist] (1860), describes a war between the North and an independent South in 1868, during the course of which New York is sacked; the South wins. Ruffan was an unrelenting advocate of Slavery, and his hatred of the victorious Union in 1865 caused him to commit Suicide. [JC]
Edmund Ruffan
born Prince George County, Virginia: 5 January 1794
died Redmoor, Amelia County, South Carolina: 17 June 1865
works
- Anticipations of the Future, to Serve as Lesson for the Present Time: in the Form of Extracts of Letters from an English Resident in the United States, to the London Times, from 1864 to 1870: With an Appendix, on the Causes and Consequences of the Independence of the South (Richmond, Virginia: J W Randolph, 1860) [hb/]
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