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Diaries detailing Ruffin's activities and opinions as an agricultural reformer, anti-unionist, and slavery advocate. Subjects include life on his Virginia estates, Marlbourne Plantation, Hanover County, Va., and Beechwood Plantation, Prince George County, Va.; Virginia state and county agricultural societies; travels and social affairs in the area between Amelia County, Va., and Richmond, Va.; theatrical and other entertainments in Richmond, Va.; religion including Calvinism and Unitarianism; Virginia state and local politics; Confederate and Union politics; and battles and skirmishes, particularly at Charleston and Fort Sumter, S.C., and Manassas, Va. Includes correspondence, fragmentary essays, holograph maps, pamphlets, and clippings.
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Politics and government, Social life and customs, Theater, Calvinism, Societies, Slavery, Campaigns, Religion, Plantations, History, Agriculture, Unitarianism, Description and travelPlaces
Richmond, Beechwood Plantation (Va.), Charleston (S.C.), Hanover County (Va.), Amelia County (Va.), Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.), Manassas (Va.), Prince George County (Va.), Virginia, Confederate States of America, Marlbourne Plantation (Va.), South Carolina, Richmond (Va.), United StatesTimes
Civil War, 1861-1865, 1861-1865, 1775-1865, 1849-1877Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Open to research.
Purchase, 1915.
Plantation owner and publisher.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.
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