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Preceded by | Thomas O. Moore |
Governor by | Election |
Served from | January 25, 1864 |
Served to | June 2, 1865 |
Rank Date |
Brigadier General August 1863 |
Left Office by | Fled to Mexico at war end |
Succeeded by | Confederacy ended |
Born Location |
April 29, 1820 Prince Edward Co, Virginia |
Died Location |
April 22, 1866
Mexico City |
Age | 46 |
Cause | Stomach Disorder |
Education | Marion College |
Profession | Lawyer |
Spouse | Salome Ann Crane |
Children | 0 |
Plantation | |
Religion | Presbyterian |
Burial | Mexico City |
Reintered Location 1 |
Washington Street Cemetery - 1867 New Orleans |
Reintered Location 2 |
Lafayette Cemetery New Orleans |
Reintered Location 3 Date |
Old State Capitol Baton Rouge July 4, 1885 |
1864 - 1865 (CSA)
Henry Watkins Allen was the 2nd
Confederate Governor of Louisiana.
Allen was in the Mississippi State Legislature and then the Louisiana State Legislature.
He became a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army and served as the
military governor of Jackson, Mississippi before being elected Confederate
Governor of Louisiana in 1864.
Allen served as Governor of Confederate Louisiana while Michael Hahn was military Governor of the Union held
territories of Louisiana. Allen urged continued fighting even after
General Lee surrendered. He escaped to Mexico to avoid arrest and died in exile
in Mexico City on April 22, 1866.
His body was returned from Mexico City to New Orleans in 1867, where it was temporarily entombed in Washington Street Cemetery
while a suitable monument was erected for his remains in Lafayette Cemetery on Washington Avenue
in New Orleans. Remembrances and
celebration were held to a minimum by the military Govenor Wells administration.
By 1885, the legislature appropriated money to remove the remains of Governor Allen and his large
monument from New Orleans to the State House grounds in Baton Rouge.
On July 4, 1885 the remains of the governor were taken from the Washington
Artillery Hall in New Orleans, where they had spent the night under military
protection, to Baton Rouge.
Final interment was in the large monument which had also been relocated. The relocated remains and monument were
presented to the State by the Allen Monumental Association.
Engraving on the base of the monument:
To The Memory
Of
Governor Allen
This Last Memorial of Love and Respect Is Erected By
An
Association of His Friends
Jno. M.
Sandidge,
W. I. Hodgson,
Harry T. Hays,
Al H. Isaacson,
W. S. Pike,
W. C. Black,
Horace Carpenter,
J. S. Copes,
A. W. Roberts,
J. H.
Wingfield
HENRY WATKINS ALLEN
Brig. General
In the Confederate Army and Last Governor
of Louisiana Under the Old Regime
BORN
In Prince Edward County, Virginia 29 April 1820
DIED
In the
City of Mexico 22 April, 1866
GOV. ALLEN In
a letter from the City of Mexico 25th Dec. 1865 to a friend In Louisiana -
When It Shall Please God To Consign This Mutilated Body To It's Last Resting
Place,
Be It Among Strangers In Mexico Or Friends In LA, I Should Desire
No Better Epitaph
Inscribed On My Tomb Than The Sentiment In The Closing
Part Of Your Letter.
"Your Friends
Are Proud To Know That Louisiana Had A
Governor Who With An Opportunity
of Securing Millions of Dollars in Gold,
Preferred Being Honest In A
Foreign Land Without One Cent."
And finally, on the outside of the new State Capitol building is this Allen image:
Biographies
National Governors Association
News
Allen's Friends Try to Quell Post War Candidacy for Governor
Annual Message of Governor (1864-1865 : Allen)
Death Notice
Eulogy
Governor Allen's Remains - 1885
Preparations for Transferring the Remains - 1885
Rebel Flag Attempt for His Coffin
Removal of Remains of Gov. Allen - 1885
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