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A LETTER FROM HER SON TO JOSEPHINE ST. PIERRE RUFFIN (MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Autograph Letter Signed from African-American Civil War soldier James D. Ruffin to his mother club-woman and civil rights leader, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin. Single 8vo sheet, folded to form four pages; a couple of (names) crossed out in a different ink, probably at a later date, creases and cracks where folded, but with no loss of text. With the original envelope, addressed by Ruffin. Folly Island, October 16th 1864
James D. Ruffin was the son of Josephine and George Lewis Ruffin, a well-to-do African-American couple, close friends of Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Josephine Ruffin is best known as a women's rights advocate and founder of the Women's New Era Club. Young Ruffin writes: "I never have nor ever will regret the day I enlisted in the 55th, even if I fall. I think you will hear from the old 55th soon in some big fight."
