Duke, General Basil

Morgan's Cavalry

NY: Neale Publishing, 1906. First Thus. Hard Bound. VG+ Bright lettering, as good as I have seen on a green cloth Neale. / None. Item #304

Duke's most noted service in the war was as second-in-command for his brother-in-law John Hunt Morgan; Duke would later write a popular account of Morgan's most famous raid: 1863's Morgan's Raid. He took over Morgan's command after Morgan was shot by Union soldiers in 1864. At the end of the war, Duke was among Confederate President Jefferson Davis's bodyguards after his flight from Richmond, Virginia, through the Carolinas. (Wikipedia)

Nevins I-83. Dornbusch III-1229. Howes 548. Krick 121: "Made lively by Duke's first hand observations."

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