Taylor's approach, defending the preservation of slavery under the circumstances and apprehensions of his day, was used to support later and more emphatic defenses of slavery by writers, such as John C. Calhoun, Edmund Ruffin, and George Fitzhugh, who extended the argument by claiming the institution to be a " positive good.

Edmund Ruffin, another noted Virginia secessionist, had traveled to Charleston to be present for the beginning of the war, and fired one of the first shots at Sumter after the signal round, a 64-pound shell from the Iron Battery at Cummings Point.

Led by such men as Edmund Ruffin, Robert Rhett, Louis T. Wigfall, and William Lowndes Yancey, this group was dubbed " Fire-Eaters " by northerners.

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" Historian Emory Thomas notes that Yancey, along with Edmund Ruffin and Robert Barnwell Rhett, " remained in the secessionist forefront longest and loudest.

Edmund Ruffin proposed the creation of a League of United Southerners as an alternative to the current political parties, a plan that Yancey supported.

Yancey supported a plan originated by Edmund Ruffin for the creation of a League of United Southerners as an alternative to the national political parties.

On Evelington Heights, part of the property of Edmund Ruffin, the Confederates had an opportunity to dominate the Union camps, making their position on the bank of the James potentially untenable ; although the Confederate position would be subjected to Union naval gunfire, the heights were an exceptionally strong defensive position that would have been very difficult for the Union to capture with infantry.

Edmund Ruffin

Edmund Ruffin ( January 5, 1794 – June 17, 1865 ) was a farmer and slaveholder, a Confederate soldier, and an 1850s political activist.

Another standard photograph of Edmund Ruffin -- at Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston, South Carolina | Charleston, South Carolina

* Slavery and free labor, described and compared / by Edmund Ruffin.

* Edmund Ruffin in Encyclopedia Virginia

* The Early Career of Edmund Ruffin, 1810-1840

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Edmund Ruffin is usually credited with being given the honor firing the first shot.

* Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, a 1999 biography with fictional elements by Edmund Morris

Edmund Morris, in his biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, describes a young Roosevelt, newly elected to the State Assembly, walking into the House Chamber for the first time in this trendy, affected gait, somewhat to the amusement of the older and more rural Members who were present.

After his father's death, Edmund Gosse published a typical Victorian biography, The Life of Philip Henry Gosse ( 1890 ).

One of Trevor-Roper's most successful books was his 1976 biography of the Sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet ( 1873 – 1944 ), who had long been regarded as one of the world's leading experts on China.

Also, Latin biographies of Stephen Langton and Edmund Rich, and a verse biography of Rich.

In his mid-life, Arbuthnot, complaining of the work of Edmund Curll, among others, who would commission and invent a biography as soon as an author died, said, " Biography is one of the new terrors of death ," and so a biography of Arbuthnot is made difficult by his own reluctance to leave records.

It has been rumored that on April 8, 1933, Wyman married Ernest Eugene Wyman ( or Weymann ) ( 1906 – 1970 ), a salesman ; the marriage was mentioned in Dutch, the authorized biography of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris, who says that the marriage certificate is on file with the State of California, with the bride giving her name as Jane Fulks, daughter of Richard D. and Emma Reise Fulks.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sir Edmund Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In March 1918 Wavell was made a temporary brigadier general and returned to Palestine where he served as the brigadier general of the General Staff ( BGGS ) with XX Corps, part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force commanded by Sir Edmund Allenby, of whom he was later to write a biography.

Among her social circle were Edmund Wilson, Berenice Abbott, and the Dadaist artist and poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, whose biography Barnes tried to write but never finished.

Conor Cruise O ' Brien's many books include: his picture of the politics of polarisation States of Ireland ( 1972 ), The Great Melody ( 1992 ), his unorthodox biography of Edmund Burke and his Memoir: My Life and Themes ( 1998 ).

While at Oxford, Allmand served as the founding editor of a literary review journal called The Wind and the Rain, and began writing a biography of Edmund Burke.

Yet opinion among 20th-century Johnson scholars such as Edmund Wilson and Donald Greene is that Boswell's Life " can hardly be termed a biography at all ", being merely " a collection of those entries in Boswell's diaries dealing with the occasions during the last twenty-two years of Johnson's life on which they met ... strung together with only a perfunctory effort to fill the gaps ".

By the account given by Roderick O ' Flanagan in his 1870 biography of the Edmund:

Edmund had previously published a biography of his father,

Although Edmund Gosse prefaces the book with the claim that the incidents described are sober reality, a modern biography of Philip Henry Gosse by Ann Thwaite presents him not as a repressive tyrant who cruelly scrutinized the state of his son's soul but as a gentle and thoughtful person of " delicacy and inner warmth ," much unlike his son's portrait.

Other books have discussed the incident, including David S. Woolman's Rebels in the Rif, Michael B. Oren's Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present and Bill Fawcett's Oval Office Oddities, and a lengthy, in-depth chapter on the kidnapping and President Roosevelt's reaction is included in Edmund Morris's second Roosevelt biography, Theodore Rex.

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt ( 1979 ) is a biography of United States President Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris and published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan when the author was forty years old.

Much of our knowledge about Delarivier Manley is rooted in her insertion of " Delia's story " in the New Atalantis ( 1709 ), and the Adventures of Rivella she published as the biography of the author of the Atalantis with Edmund Curll in 1714.

Interviewed about his Goulding biography Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory ( 2009 ), film historian Matthew Kennedy stated:

He later told abolitionist Edmund Quincy of the `` marked attention and civility '' with which the New Orleans gentlemen and the upriver planters greeted him.

Edmund, but not for years.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

In England, British Social Anthropology's paradigm began to fragment as Max Gluckman and Peter Worsley experimented with Marxism and authors such as Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach incorporated Lévi-Strauss's structuralism into their work.

* 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.

An early psychical researcher to propose an afterlife hypothesis was Edmund Fournier d ' Albe he wrote that at the moment of death the soul floats into the atmosphere.

In 1054 King Edward sent Ealdred to Germany to obtain Emperor Henry III's help in returning Edward the Exile, son of Edmund Ironside, to England.

Edmund ( reigned 1016 ) was an elder half-brother of King Edward the Confessor, and Edmund's son Edward was in Hungary with King Andrew I, having left England as an infant after his father's death and the accession of Cnut as King of England.

Also, Sen. Edmund G. Ross received assurances that the radical constitutions ratified in South Carolina and Arkansas would be transmitted to the Congress.

* 1862 – American Civil War – Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.

* 1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.

Anne obtained a second post as governess to the children of the Reverend Edmund Robinson and his wife Lydia, at Thorp Green, a wealthy country house near York.

Anne had four pupils: Lydia, age 15, Elizabeth, age 13, Mary, age 12, and Edmund, age 8.

He was to take over as tutor to the Robinsons ' son, Edmund who was growing too old to be in Anne's care.

Analytic theorists like Henry Home, Lord Kames, William Hogarth, and Edmund Burke hoped to reduce beauty to some list of attributes.

Sowell cites Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky and Edmund Wilson as paradigmatic examples of this phenomenon.

The English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ) provoked a number of examples of this genre, including works by Sir Edmund Ludlow and Sir John Reresby.

It was the failure of Dalhousie to appoint a prominent Baptist pastor and scholar, Edmund Crawley, to the Chair of Classics, as had been expected, that really thrust into the forefront of Baptist thinking the need for a College established and run by the Baptists.

In Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene 8 lines of pentameter are followed by an alexandrine, the eponymous Spenserian stanza.

* 1920 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer ( d. 1991 )

* 1743 – Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and inventor of the power loom ( d. 1823 )

* Edmund Riley, Builder of the Victorian Arcade.

With the aid of scholarships, Clinton attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C., receiving a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service ( B. S.