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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 2: preliminary rebellious movements. (search)
s, who was among the prisoners, speaks of him in his Journal, kept while in confinement in Richmond, as a patriarchal citizen, whose long locks extended over his shoulders, whitened by the snows of more than seventy winters. Ruffin did not appear prominently in the war that ensued. He survived the conflict, in which he lost all of his property. On Saturday, the 17th of June, 1865, he committed suicide by blowing off the top of his head with a gun, at the residence of his son, near Danville, in Virginia. He left a note, in which he said--I cannot survive the liberties of my country. The wretched man was then almost eighty years of age. He had now hastened from his home in Virginia to Columbia, to urge the importance of immediate secession. I have studied the question now before the country, he said, for years. It has been the one great idea of my life. The defense of the South, I verily believe, is only to be secured through the lead of South Carolina. Old as I am, I have come