Title: Edmund Ruffin Description: Edmund Ruffin (1794-1865), American farmer, slaveholder, activist and secessionist, who fired one of the first shots at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 to begin the Civil War and, when seeing the utter collapse and defeat of the Confederacy loaded his musket with buckshot and blew off the top of his head, leaving a note that stated he would rather die than submit to the government of the United States; Keywords: activists, rebels, secessionists, suicides Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1350 x 1543 (2.08 MPixels) (1.14) Print Size: 11.4 x 13.1 cm; 4.5 x 5.1 inches File Size: 5.97 MB (6,255,552 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095773 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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