Lot 743: Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers

Andrew B. Booth, "Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands", (New Orleans: The author, 1920, printed 1928) three volumes in four, royal quarto, cloth boards with gilt lettering on front and black lettering on spine, 10-1/4" x 7-1/4". Note: Andrew Bradford Booth (1844-1923) was born in Scott Co. Kentucky on May 8, 1844, but moved with his parents to Baton Rouge in 1848. He graduated from The Academy there in April 1861 and joined Company K, Third Louisiana Infantry four months later. He served nearly the duration of the war, eventually captured on Christmas Eve 1864 in Livingston Parish and finally paroled at Camp Townsend, May 6, 1865 with the rank of 2nd Sergeant. After the war, he was a merchant in the Ascension Parish town of Hope Villa (which he named) before moving to New Orleans in 1886, where he was a commercial, real estate and insurance agent. He organized the Public Belt Railroad Association in 1888. He was an active member of the Confederate Veterans of America, and served as the Louisiana Commissioner of Military Records from 1915 to 1922. It was during this latter tenure that he compiled the present volumes, which remain the primary resource for Louisiana Confederate soldiers. He died in New Orleans on June 2, 1923.