Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Confederate Colonel, Acting Assistant Secretary of War,Confederate States of

- Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Confederate Colonel, Acting Assistant Secretary of War, Confederate States of America, CSA Envoy to United Kingdom - An Examination Of President Edwards' Inquiry Into The Freedom Of The Will by Albert Bledsoe Taylor, Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. 1st Edition. 1845 Copy In A Blind- Stamped Cloth With The Title Bledsoe On The Will In Gold Gilt Top Of Spine. Small Octavo. Bledsoe was A West Point graduate With Robert E. Lee And Jefferson Davis. In 1838, Bledsoe moved to Springfield, Illinois, where he was a law partner of Edward D. Baker, and where he practiced law in the same courts as Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. He practiced before the United States Supreme Court in Washington DC from 1840 to 1848 and yet later served as a Colonel In The Confederate Army, And Jefferson Davis's Assistant Secretary Of War. He founded The Southern Review and was its first editor. This copy is inscribed / written in pencil To Wm Hamilton Holly With The Regards Of The Author. Also the stamp of M.M. Marshall (Resident Of Richmond And Portsmouth, Va.) 234 Pp Plus An Additional Four Pages Of Ads On Hooker's Publications. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ inches tall.