Memoirs with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War.

REAGAN, John H.

Item Number: 116934

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906.

First edition of the Civil War era statesman’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth decorated with gilt titles and central gilt Confederate emblem, illustrated, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece. Edited by Walter Flavius McCaleb. Introduction by George P. Garrison. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.

A Democrat from Texas, John Henninger Reagan resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives when Texas seceded from the Union and joined the Confederate States of America. He served in the cabinet of Jefferson Davis, as Postmaster General and later in the United States Senate and as chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission.