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Subject:	Re: Edmund Ruffin's Sucide
From:	Barrett Decker <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2007 08:33:04 -0400
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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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