Recollections of Henry Watkins Allen: Brigadier General Confederate States Army, Ex-Governor of Louisiana
New York; (1866): M. Doolady. First Edition. Octavo. Item #031853
430 pages. Dorsey's work is invaluable both as a picture of Henry Watkins Allen and as a source on the lower Mississippi Valley in the Confederacy. After his severe wounds, he became the 17th Governor of Louisiana in 1864 and in spite of the hardships imposed on the Union Army's expansion was able to send cotton to Mexico and get needed medicines and basic supplies. With the fall of the Confederacy, he fled to Mexico where he died (his remains were returned to Louisiana). Dorsey's description of the culture of the old South and the destruction of property by the hated Yankees is an important though biased Southern view of the Civil War in Mississippi and Louisiana. Rebound in green cloth, spine lettering gilt, endpapers renewed.
Price: $155.00