DUKE, Basil W.

Reminiscences of...., C.S.A.

Item #50290

DUKE, Basil W. Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke, C.S.A. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911. 1st ed. xii, 512pp. Orig. decorated cloth. A very good copy. HOWES D-549. Dornbusch II, 2702. Duke commanded the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry and participated in most of the actions with his brother-in-law, John Hunt Morgan. During the celebrated raid into Ohio and Indiana, Duke was captured and imprisoned for a year before being paroled. In the closing days of the war, his brigade acted as escort for the fleeing Jefferson Davis and the fugitive Confederate government. "A standard since its publication" In Tall Cotton, 48. "This exceptionally fine memoir of Confederate cavalry operations in the West is often consulted and widely quoted" Nevins I, p.83.

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