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Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South. By David Allmendinger, Jr.
(Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990. Ppxiv, 274. ISBN 0-19-504415-0.)
Allmendinger describes, according to the Whig, the act as having scattered
"his brains and snowy hair against the ceiling of the room" (qtd. in 154).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert Louis Zambone" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:42 AM
Subject: [VA-HIST] Edmund Ruffin's Sucide
> Here's a strange, indeed macabre, question: where did Edmund Ruffin shoot
> himself when he committed suicide? Head or chest?
>
> For some reason I feel that I absolutely need to know this as I write a
> long book review; probably just to remove the writer's block.
>
>
> Regards, Al Zambone
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