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