![[ Manuscript ledger for Isaiah Garrett’s legal practice and plantation business in Lousiana.]. Isaiah Garrett.](/pictures/thumb/4190_1.jpg?v=1505159569)
[ Manuscript ledger for...
A substantial, richly detailed record of the practice of law and the operation of a plantation in antebellum Louisiana. Isaiah Garrett (1812-1874), a Louisiana lawyer, politician, and planter, was born in Franklin, Tennessee and raised in Missouri. He won an appointment to West Point, graduating in 1833, but almost immediately...