...d Ruffin shot the first gun, I hope you will publish what he himself wrote the day of that event, and the clippings from newspapers of that date, which I think will establish the fact beyond a doubt. Julian M. Ruffin . Old Church, Va., March 30, 1896. The extract referred to above follows: I wish to correct an error which has almost passed into an historical fact. It is this: That Edmund Ruffin...