Charles Dahlgren of Natchez

Biographer Herschel Gower eloquently traces the rise of Charles Dahlgren, brother of the famous Union admiral John A. Dahlgren, to social prominence in the pre-Civil War South. In search of glory, Dahlgren established himself in Natchez, Mississippi; married an heiress; started a family; and prospered. When Mississippi seceded from the Union, he defended his plantations, his ownership of slaves, and his hard-won security. Dahlgren's fortune evaporated with the fall of the Confederacy, and he returned to the North, where he died a Confederate carpetbagger. Readers interested in Southern history and the consequences of allegiance during the Civil War will be enthralled by Dahlgren's provocative story.

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