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Henry Watkins Allen (April 29, 1820 – April 22, 1866) was a member of the Confederate States Army and the Texian Army as a soldier, also serving as a military leader, politician, writer, enslaver, and sugar cane planter.
Allen was responsible for the brief creation of a Utopian fantasy in Mexico. Cast away from the South, Allen settled in Mexico City, where he edited an English-language newspaper, The Mexican Times, and prophesized the creation of a new agrarian paradise.
Two years after moving to Louisiana, Allen was elected to the Louisiana Legislature, serving from 1853 to 1854. He retired briefly from public service, studying law at Harvard and volunteering in the Italian independence conflict, which was over by the time he reached Italy.
6 de set. de 2006 · Recollections of Henry Watkins Allen, brigadier-general Confederate States army, ex-governor of Louisiana : Dorsey, Sarah A. (Sarah Anne), 1829-1879 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Died: April 22, 1866 in Mexico City; body later interred on Old State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge. Henry Allen served Confederate Louisiana as an officer in the Battle of Shiloh and in the defense of Baton Rouge where he was wounded in both legs.
30 de set. de 2016 · In 1861, while Henry Watkins Allen and other white Southerners fought to establish an independent slaveholding republic, French soldiers invaded Mexico as part of Emperor Napoleon III’s “grand design” to “regenerate” the New World through the reestablishment of European colonial rule.
Allen, Henry Watkins (1820-1866) To the planters and slave-owners of Louisiana. High-resolution images are available to schools and libraries via subscription to American History, 1493-1943 . Check to see if your school or library already has a subscription.
