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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.
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.
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.
19 de ago. de 2018 · Henry Watkins Allen was an officer for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. During the war, he was elected as the 17th Governor of Louisiana, and then, after Robert E. Lee's surrender, he left the United States for Mexico, where he lived until his death.
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.
Overview. Henry Watkins Allen. (1820—1866) Quick Reference. (1820–66) Confederate army officer and governor of Louisiana, born in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1862 he was a lieutenant colonel in command of the 4th Louisiana Regiment at Shiloh ... From: Allen, Henry Watkins in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military »
Henry Watkins Allen (April 29, 1820 – April 22, 1866) was an American soldier and politician, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He served as the 17th Governor of Louisiana late in the war and was the last governor elected under Constitutional law to the post until the end of Reconstruction .
