The Farmers' Register. Part Volume II and Part Volume III. January-December 1835

Ruffin, Edmund (Editor and Proprietor)

Published by Office of the Farmers' Register, [Shellbanks, VA], 1835

About this Item

Quarto. Volume II: Numbers 8-12: [1], pages 457-776. Volume II: Numbers 1-8, 512 pages, 116 pages titled "An Essay on Calcareous Manures". Brownish marbled paper covered boards with leather corners and spine. Black leather title label on the spine. Paper covered boards are worn. Leather is dry, rubbed, scuufed, and cracked. Moderate to heavy toning to the text. Occasional scattered foxing to the text. No index or table of contents in this volume. Old ink name of A. Hansford written on the right front flyleaf. From wikipedia: Edmund Ruffin III (January 5, 1794 June 17, 1865) was a wealthy Virginia planter, amateur soil scientist, and political activist best known as an early advocate for secession of the southern slave states from the United States. He served in the Virginia Senate from 1823 to 1827.[1] In the three decades before the American Civil War he published polemics in support of states' rights and the protection of chattel slavery, earning notoriety as one of the so-called Fire-Eaters. Ruffin was present at the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 and fired one cannon shot at the fort. This gave rise to the legend that Ruffin fired the first shot of the Civil War. Ruffin did enlist as a Confederate soldier despite his advanced age. When the war ended in defeat in 1865, he committed suicide rather than accept what he called "Yankee rule."[2].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Farmers' Register. Part Volume II and Part Volume III. January-December 1835
• Publisher: Office of the Farmers' Register, [Shellbanks, VA]
• Publication Date: 1835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • American South
  • Agriculture