Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

by Richard Taylor

Overview

Taylor's memoir of his Civil War and Reconstruction experiences is regarded as one of the best-written of the period. His recollections focus on his service in Virginia under Stonewall Jackson and later as commander of the department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780692326787
Publisher:	Confederate Reprint Company
Publication date:	07/07/2015
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Richard Taylor, the only son of President Zachary Taylor, was born at his father’s plantation, Springfield, outside Louisville, Kentucky in 1826. He graduated from Yale in 1845, and spent most of the succeeding years in Mississippi and Louisiana, where he became a sugar planter and earned a reputation as politician, gentleman-scholar and raconteur. A delegate to the Democratic convention in 1860, he worked there to avert the disruption of the Northern and Southern wings.