Edmund-Ruffin Published October 4, 2013 at 575 × 932 in Government Shutdown and the Return of the Fire-Eaters Virginia’s Edmund Ruffin, a fire eater who, early in the Civil War, vowed that he would would go down with the Confederate ship. And the son-of-gun did it, too. FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle+PinterestRedditTumblrDigg Tweet Next →