Memoirs Of John Adams Dix Compiled By His Son [in Two Volumes]

Dix, Morgan, compiler; John Adams Dix

Harper & Brothers, 1883

2 volume set. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Hardcover.  Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.  xii, 388; iv, 436 pages.   Dix was an important northern politician during the Civil War era.  He served as Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York, and a major general for the Union. He is best known for arresting the seditious Maryland General Assembly and suppressing the New York City draft riots.  From the library of Richard J. Sommers. Dr. Sommers was a military historian at the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Sommers authored a number of books on the Civil War, notably The Siege at Petersburg, and taught for 44 years at the Army War College.