TY  - GEN
AU  - Ruffin,Edmund
TI  - Edmund Ruffin diaries,
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Societies, etc
KW  - Calvinism
KW  - Plantations
KW  - Religion
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Theater
KW  - Richmond
KW  - Unitarianism
KW  - Amelia County (Va.)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Beechwood Plantation (Va.)
KW  - Charleston (S.C.)
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Confederate States of America
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)
KW  - Hanover County (Va.)
KW  - Manassas (Va.)
KW  - Marlbourne Plantation (Va.)
KW  - Prince George County (Va.)
KW  - Richmond (Va.)
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - United States
KW  - 1849-1877
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - 1775-1865
KW  - Plantation owners
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Publishers
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010091
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010091.3
ER  -