Singerman Entry
Singerman ID#supp1721
Dorsey, Sarah Anne. Recollections of Henry Watkins Allen, Brigadier-General Confederate States Army, ex-Governor of Louisiana. New York: M. Doolady; New Orleans: James A. Gresham, [c1866]. 420 p.
Notes
See pp. 245-46 for unsuccessful attempts by two Jews, one bearing gifts of wine and cloth, to curry favor with Governor Allen in order to win a state contract during the Civil War.