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Item Code: 490-6645
Edited by John S. Kendall, Reprinted from the Louisiana Historical quarterly, Vol 23, No. 4., October, 1940. In beige wraps, 19 pp., 10.5” x 7. Covers lightly fade round the margins. Else near fine.
This monograph details all the ins-and-outs of the confiscation of a set of silver service borrowed from New Orleans’ Christ Church by a friend of Mrs. Benjamin Butler and never returned. Along with an account of all the unsuccessful efforts to retrieve the silverware—an episode that earned Gen. Butler his enduring nickname--“Spoons” Butler. In protective sleeves.[jp][ph:L]
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