Two Months in the Confederate States, Including a Visit to New Orleans

[CORSAN, W. C.]. Two Months in the Confederate States, Including a Visit to New Orleans under the Domination of General Butler. By an English Merchant. London: Richard Bentley, 1863. 1st ed. 299 pp. Orig. blindstamped cloth. Binding worn with some repairs to the front joint; textblock has been reinserted into the binding. Vertical closed tear to the top third of the backstrip. Contemporary bookplate of Samuel Rigby on the front pastedown. Library stamps. Good only. HOWES C-791, "aa." In Taller Cotton 49. "These observations by an English merchant who visited the Confederacy in 1862 sympathetically reveal much of social and economic conditions in the wartime South" Nevins I, p.75."This English merchant visited the Confederate states primarily to investigate the status of debts owed by southerners to English and foreign merchants.He was interested in the attitudes of the people toward their new governments and found amazing loyalty everywhere" Coulter 97.