SR31

USA 3c Red Nesbitt U10 pen-cancel and the Scupernong NC CDS at the upper left 20 MAY (1861). Cover year dated by period receiving docketing on the face of the cover US Mail Service entirely in the Seceded Independent Republic of North Carolina on the day of North Carolina secession. From the Pettigrew Correspondence addressed to William S. Pettigrew Esq, Raleigh, North Carolina. Molesworth note on the reverse. Very clean secession day cover. The Pettigrew family was a prominent North Carolina planter family. William Shepard Pettigrew (1818-1900) was a member of the North Carolina Secession Convention and was the older brother of CSA Gen James Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863) who commanded Heth's Division at Pickett's Charge (Gettysburg) and was killed covering the retreat from Gettysburg a few days later.

$750.00 SOLD

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