BUST VIEW CDV OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL AND LOUISIANA GOVERNOR HENRY W. ALLEN

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Image is a chest-up view of Allen in the uniform of a Confederate officer.

Contrast and clarity are passable. Details of his double-breasted frock coat are light around the collar area but the contrast is very good on the face.

Mount is cruder than the usual but in good condition. Paper has light scattered foxing and minor surface dirt.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for EUGENE SIMON… NEW ORLEANS.

ID is confirmed by numerous online and published images.

A published biography of Allen reads “Henry Watkins Allen was born in Prince Edward County, Va., April 29, 1820.  His early life was spent in a workshop.  His parents removing to the West he became a student at Marion college, Missouri.  In consequence of a dispute with his father he ran away from college and opened a school at Grand Gulf, in Mississippi, studying law at the same time.  He was soon admitted to the bar and practiced law with great success.

In 1842, when President Houston, of Texas, called for volunteers to repel any renewed invasion from Mexico, Allen, who was only 23 years of age, raised a company and joined the forces of Texas, so acquitting himself as to win the confidence and esteem of his men and of his superior officers.  Returning home, he resumed his law practice.

In 1846 he was elected to the legislature.  Soon after the expiration of his term he went to Louisiana, purchased an estate near Baton Rouge and became a planter.  In 1853, he was sent to the legislature of Louisiana.  The next year he went to Harvard University to take a higher course in law, but he became so interested in the struggle of the Italians for independence that he sailed for Europe with the purpose of joining them in their fight for freedom.

Finding the contest ended when he arrived, he made a tour of Europe, and on his return published a book entitled "The Travels of a Sugar Planter."  During his absence he was a second time elected to the legislature, where he gave great satisfaction to his constituents, besides making a reputation throughout the State.  When the storm of Civil War began in 1861, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel in the Confederate service and was stationed at Ship Island.

He preferred more active service and was commissioned colonel of the Fourth Louisiana.  At the battle of Shiloh, the brigade to which this regiment was attached suffered a loss of officers and men exceeding that of most other brigades in the battle.  Allen was himself among the wounded in the first day's conflict, on April 6th.  At Vicksburg he superintended the construction of fortifications under a heavy fire.

After the repulse of the Union force and fleets from Vicksburg in 1862, Van Dorn, at that time in command at the city, organized an expedition against Baton Rouge, which was led by Breckinridge.

In the severe battle fought at that place August 5, 1862, Allen was dangerously wounded in both legs by a shell.  He was promoted to brigadier-general early in 1864, but soon after being elected governor of Louisiana he retired from the army.

He promoted important things for the Confederacy.  Among these was the payment of the cotton tax to the Confederate government in kind, and the opening of trade between Mexico and the State of Texas by which cotton was exchanged for medicine, clothing, and other articles of necessity.  In his suppression of the liquor traffic Governor Allen used dictatorial powers, and succeeded in a way that was never before known.

After the war he made his home in the city of Mexico, where he established a newspaper entitled "The Mexican Times."  General Allen died in Mexico City on April 22, 1866.” He is buried in Mexico City National Cemetery and Memorial, Cuauhtemoc, Cuauhtémoc Borough, Ciudad de México, Mexico.  [ad][ph:L]

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