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[CIVIL WAR]. YOUNG, Bennett H. (1843-1919). History of the Battle of Blue Licks. Louisville: John P. Morton and Company, 1897. 8vo. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and 3 plates. 101, [3, blank] pp. Publisher's staple-bound wrappers (front wrapper detached and chipped, worn and soiled, frontispiece detached, chipped and dampstained, spine partially perished, rear wrapper missing, plates and conjugate pages dampstained, a few pages with marginal tears). Fair. THE RARE FIRST EDITION; A PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY BENNETT ON THE TITLE-PAGE: “To the Misses Ward with the assurances of high regard and sincere esteem Bennett H. Young July 11 1898". Young was a Confederate officer who led forces in the St. Albans Raid, in which Young's forces robbed banks in St. Albans, VT, in order to enhance the finances of the Confederate Treasury. After the raid, Young's forces fled into Canada, where Canadian forces arrested them. Abraham Lincoln wanted these men extradited for prosecution, but neutral Canada denied this. At the end of the war, Young was denied amnesty by President Johnson; Young spent the next few years in Ireland and Scotland, where he studied law. He was able to return to the U. S. in 1868, where he established the first orphanage for African-American children and a school for the blind in Louisville, KY. He wrote several histories, including this one. Young was awarded the CSA Medal of Honor for the St. Albans Raid. His autograph is quite rare.