Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States

1812. LEE, Henry. Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States. Phila.: Bradford and Inskeep, 1812. 1st ed. 2 Vols. [4],423;[4],486pp. Portrait frontises. Orig. boards, rebacked in period-style paper and printed paper labels. Boards rubbed, scattered foxing and toning, very old waterstain to top free corner of first few leaves of Vol. One, else a very good , fully untrimmed copy. HOWES L-202. Clark I:269. Shaw & Shoemaker 25839. Sabin 39741. DAB XI,pp.107-8. Lee, father of Robert E. Lee, was a friend and confidante of Washington until the latter's death. He served heroically under Greene and relates the events of battles with Tarleton and other British troops, largely effecting discouragement of the British faction in the Carolinas. Lee resigned his commission in 1781, assuming that the war was over, and before long turned to politics, serving as governor of Virginia from 1792 to 1795. While imprisoned in 1808-9 for debt, he wrote his memoirs, mainly to pay off creditors. He died in 1818.