MSC164

Semi-Official Imprint Cover "Head Quarters, Department of N. C. Official Business" (Type WD-ZA-13). Handcarried outside the postal system  to Mrs. J. R. Anderson, Richmond Favd by Maj Ashe. The addressee was the wife of CSA Brig-Gen Joseph Reid Anderson. Gen Anderson was in command at Wilmington NC from Sept 1861 into early 1862. So the cover could be a letter from the general to his wife. But the handwriting on the cover is not that of Gen Anderson. So someone else addressed the cover. Gen Anderson resigned 7/19/1862 to devote full time to the management of the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond. Major Ashe, who is named as the carrier of the cover, was most likely Major William Shepperd Ashe (1814-1862) of North Carolina who served as a Quartermaster Officer in Richmond in charge of railroad transportation. He could have carried the letter as a favor to the General in early 1862 when he was returning to Richmond. Major Ashe was killed in a railroad accident near Wilmington NC in Sept 1862. Cover is clean with a small reduction at the top not affecting anything, a small corner fault at the upper left, and a missing top back flap.

$200.00

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