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Secessionist Edmund Ruffin ![]() Agriculturalist and secessionist Virginian Edmund Ruffin Pro-seccesion Edmund Ruffin got Virginia to send a delegation to the Nashville Convention of 1850, fired the first shot at Fort Sumter and was one of the oldest men in the Confederate Army when war broke out in 1861. He participated in the retreat from Fairfax Court House and in the battle of First Manassas Image added on:January 17, 2006 Edmund Ruffin Return to Images of the Civil War
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