1865 newspaper Edmund Ruffin death by suicide PT BARNUM MUSEUM in NYC BURNS DOWN

Description: 1865 newspaper Edmund Ruffin death by suicide PT BARNUM MUSEUM in NYC BURNS DOWN 1865 illustrated newspaper with large inside-page engravings and detailed report announcing that PT BARNUM MUSEUM in NYC BURNS DOWN. Also, on the front page is a large political cartoon engraving of a freed slave working for his former master for pay, the Post Civil War Slave QuestionThis isssue also has an engraving and text on the DEATH by SUICIDE of Edmund Ruffin, the Virginian who reportedly fired the first shot to begin the Civil War in the BATTLE of FT SUMTER - inv # 9Y-426 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the harpers Weekly Illustrated Newspaper (NY) dated July 29, 1865. This original newspaper contains compelling post-Civil War history as the South grapples with the question of what to do with the millions of freed slaves who must now find ways to support themselves, as well as detailed coverage of the great fire in New York City.Edmund Ruffin III (January 5, 1794 – June 18, 1865) was a wealthy Virginia planter who served in the Virginia Senate from 1823 to 1827. In the last three decades before the American Civil War, his pro-slavery writings received more attention than his agricultural work. Ruffin, a slaveholder, staunchly advocated states' rights and slavery, arguing for secession years before the Civil War, and became a political activist with the so-called Fire-Eaters. Ruffin is given credit for "firing the first shot of the war" at the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 and fought as a Confederate soldier despite his advanced age. When the war ended in Southern defeat in 1865, he committed suicide rather than submit to "Yankee rule." According to an account in the New York Sun, at noon on July 13, a museum employee came running up from the basement and announced that his office was on fire. The flames quickly spread and soon smoke billowed out the building. Firemen quickly evacuated visitors, human performers and animals from the premises. By 1:30 pm the roof had collapsed, and one of the building’s walls soon followed.Miraculously, no human lives were lost in the blaze, but many animals perished, including two whales, which horrifically boiled alive in their tanks. Others escaped; though rumors of a lion from the museum roaming about Manhattan were grossly exaggerated note Young and Meyers.At the time, the New York Times wrote, “Almost in the twinkling of an eye, the dirty, ill-shaped structure, filled with specimens so full of suggestion and of merit, passed from our gaze, and its like cannot soon be seen again.” Very good condition. 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