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USA #11 (very nice stamp) tied by the BLUE Nashville, Ten CDS dated 7
MAR (1857 by period docketing). University of Nashville Western
Military Institute College Cover Dietz Type I with black oval corner card
at the upper left showing the school buildings and the Corps of Cadets on the
Parade Ground. Addressed to O. R. Weaver Esqr, Little Rock, Arks. The
Western Military Institute was founded in 1847 in Georgetown, Ky. In
1855, the school merged with the University of Nashville and relocated to
that city eventually going out of existence as a separate school in 1867. The
addressee, Omar Rose Weaver, attended the school pre war and at the
outbreak of the war helped to organize Woodruff’s Battery (later the
Arkansas Pulaski Light Artillery) and became the battery’s lieutenant. Lieut
Weaver was hit in the chest by a solid shot at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek
(also known as the Battle of Oak Hill) near Springfield, Mo 8/10/1861 and
died a few days later. This was the first engagement of the war in which
Arkansas volunteers participated. Lieut Omar Rose Weaver is generally
acknowledged as the first Arkansas Confederate Soldier to die in the war.
Even though this cover is pre war USA usage, it is quite a scarce college
cover in its own right and has an important wartime connection through the
addressee. Receiving docketing in Lieut Weaver’s hand and initialed
“O.R.W.” There apparently is at least one known CSA usage of this
college cover design (perhaps more than one) as it is listed in the 1986 Dietz
Catalog, but I have not seen a CSA postally used example of this design and
do not know where one might be located. Very minor light foxing around
the edges and a light vertical file fold at the right edge not affecting
anything, otherwise Very Fine.
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