Brigadier General Milton S. Littlefield, of Sherman's Army, and one of Lincoln's friends and military protégés. He became well known as "Prince of the Carpetbaggers," for exploiting not only the South, but also fellow Yankees, Englishmen, etc., in grandiose schemes involving Rail Roads, and brokerage houses, during the South's Reconstruction period (1865-1877). Littlefield became the epitome of a plundering carpetbagger, as the author deeply relates the period of Reconstruction, while telling the fascinating story of a man and his career that both North and South would prefer to forget. Daniel's has provided a well researched, and scholarly picture of this era, and captures the excitement, political upheavals, and detailed information, of this volatile period of Southern History. Author Jonathan Daniels was Press Secretary for FDR, and participated in Truman's Presidential campaign of 1948. He was the Editior of The New Orleans Observer of Raleigh, N.C. Brick color cloth boards and spine, silvered lettering to spine. DW price clipped, pictorial. Head of spine mildly rubbed two 1/4 closed tears, heal rubbed, flea bite chip to joint, lower edge closed tear to rear dw, corners rubbed. Very clean, tightly bound. First Edition. tall 8 vo., 319 pp. In protective brodart mylar jacket.

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