VA3166

Stampless Paid cover with the small single rim Franklin Depot, Va (Southampton County) CDS and handstamp PAID 5 Type A all in BLUE 31 DEC 1861. Franklin Depot was an important Confederate supply station on the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad which ran from Portsmouth, Va to the Roanoke River in North Carolina. Orange paper cover from the Pettigrew correspondence addressed to William S. Pettigrew Esq, Raleigh, No. Ca. Period receiving docketing at the left indicates that the cover was from Charles L. Pettigrew, a brother of the addressee. Very Fine. Ex-Bogg. The addressee, William Shepard Pettigrew (1818-1881), was the brother of famed CSA General James Johnston Pettigrew who commanded a division during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg and was killed a few days later during the retreat from Gettysburg. During the war, William S. Pettigrew operated the family's plantations in North Carolina and was later ordained an Episcopal minister in 1869. Charles Lockhart Pettigrew (1816-1873), the oldest Pettigrew brother, operated a plantation known as Bonarva located on Lake Phelps in North Carolina.

$150.00

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