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world of what stuff it was made in the days that are gone, when the brazen throats of its guns blazed forth on so many ensanguined battle fields under the eyes of its beloved commanders, Lee, Johnston, Beauregard and Longstreet."
The "History of the Third Regiment Louisiana Infantry," by W. H. Tunnard, is another work which relates the brave deeds of our soldiers, and which we read with pride.
One of our most heroic governors was H. W. Allen. A monument has been erected to him on the hill at Baton Rouge, where stands our capitol, and our people will always remember the name of the true patriot who was maimed for his State and governed it so well in the most trying period of its history. Before the war Henry W. Allen was a planter in West Baton Rouge, and in 1859 took a trip to Europe. He relates his voyage in "The Travels of a Sugar Planter," and we read the book with a feeling of awe at the unexpected fate of the man who in 1860 was a peaceful traveler in Europe and so soon afterward was to be a leader in one of the fiercest struggles ever recorded. Governor Allen’s literary work must be cherished with veneration by the State for which he suffered so much, and all should read the tribute paid to his memory by Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey. Her "Recollections of Henry Watkins Allen," written, it is said, at Gov. Allen’s dying request, was published in 1867. Mr. J. W. Davidson, in " Living Writers of the South," quotes
