Confederate Operations in Canada and New York
Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, Inc., 1984. Reprint of the 1906 edition. Full leather. 480, [2] p. Collector's Library of the Civil War sheet and bookplate laid in. Illustrations. John W. Headley was born February 13, 1841, at Providence in Hopkins County, Kentucky. He joined the Confederate army at the age of twenty. Headley served as a spy for Gen. Braxton Bragg and rode with Gen. John Hunt Morgan. Later in the war, he served with the Confederate Secret Service under Colonel Robert Martin in Canada. In 1906 Headley wrote a book dealing with his wartime service for the Confederacy entitled "Confederate Operations in Canada and New York". Headley was a lifelong Democrat who served as Secretary of State of Kentucky from 1891 to 1895 in the administration of John Young Brown. He is listed in the federal census of 1900 and 1910 as living in Louisville with his wife Mary J. and children. Condition: Very good. No dust jacket. Bound in leather. Decorative title and endpapers. Gilt edges. Minor edge soiling.
Keywords: John Hunt Morgan, Fort Donelson, Braxton Bragg, Perryville, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Murfreesboro, Robert Martin, Spies, Espionage, Secret Service, Abel Streight
ISBN: 9780809442836
[Book #71867]
Price: $35.00