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

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. Two portraits. Orig. paper-backed boards, fully untrimmed. Spine paper partially abraded, minor scrapes to boards, faint scattered foxing, else a very good set in two cloth slipcases. HOWES L-202. Clark I:269. Shaw & Shoemaker 25839. Sabin 39741. DAB XI,pp.107-8. 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 tunred 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.