Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer

by Mary Gorton Mcbride and Ann M. McLaurin

Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana offers the first biography of one of Louisiana's most intriguing nineteenth-century politicians and a founder of Tulane University. Gibson (1832--1892) grew up on his family's sugar plantation in Terrebonne Parish and was educated at Yale University before studying law at the University of Louisiana in New Orleans. He purchased a sugar plantation in Lafourche Parish in 1858 and became heavily involved in the pro-secession...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807132349
• ISBN13: 9780807132340
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"