CHESNUT, JAMES, JR. (1815-85) Confederate Brigadier General; Served as aide to Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard & President Jefferson Davis; U.S. Senator – South Carolina – 1858-60; Husband of Confederate diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut
# 13000
Franked Envelope, 2 ¾” x 5 ¼”, “James Chesnut, U.S.S. fr…,” as U.S. Senator from South Carolina, also addressed by Chesnut to “Hon[orable] J.L. Manning, Willard’s Hotel, Washington.” Dated 1860 vertically at the left edge, quite possibly by the recipient, John Laurence Manning, former South Carolina governor, 1852-54, who later served as a colonel in the Confederate Army.
Torn irregularly in opening at the upper right corner, affecting the last few characters of Chesnut’s frank.
Previous Item (CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828-1914) Union Brigadier General; Colonel of the 20th Maine Infantry; Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Gettysburg; Governor of Maine – 1867-71; President of Bowdoin College – 1871-83)
(CLEM, JOHN LINCOLN “JOHNNY” (1851-1937) Union Drummer Boy - 22nd Ohio Infantry, in the American Civil War; Known as the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga”; Retired with the rank of Brigadier General in 1915) Next Item