The Life and Times of C. G. Memminger.
Richmond, VA: Everett Waddey Co., 1893. First edition. 8vo. 604 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, plates, portraits. Memminger (1803-1888), a native of Charleston, S.C., graduated from South Carolina College at 18 and entered a career in public service, eventually heading the finance committee in the state legislature; he was named Secretary of the Treasury for the Confederate States by Jefferson Davis and served in that role until he resigned in 1864. Howes C-125: "Best account of the Confederacy's finances; also brings out the growth of secession thought from 1832 to the formation of the Confederacy." Nevins II, p. 43: "Sympathetic appraisal of the Confederacy's first Secretary of the Treasury; quotes extensively from many useful documents; Capers was Memminger's chief clerk." Not in Nicholson. Very good. Original embossed brown cloth, gilt spine title, floral endpapers. (9954). Item #63518
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