Confederacy, (Military Related) Brigadier General James Chesnut, Jr. Pretty blue envelope addressed to "Hon James Chesnut Jr of South Carolina, Richmond, Va." franked with a pair of 1862 5¢ blue stamps (large margins to just touched at right) tied by Pocotaligo, S.C./, May 28 (1863) cds, At the time, Chesnut was a Colonel serving as aide to President Davis, Very Fine and choice. Estimate  $200 - 300. Brigadier General James Chesnut, Jr. was born in 1815 on Mulberry Plantation near Camden, South Carolina. Chesnut was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1852, where he believed in preserving slavery and the Southern way of life. With the election of Abraham Lincoln as president, Chesnut decided that he could no longer stay in his office in the Senate. On November 10, 1860, he withdrew from the Senate, being the first Southern senator to withdraw. He was expelled in absentia from the Senate the next year. Chesnut participated in the South Carolina secession convention in December 1860 and in the spring of 1861 he served as volunteer aide-de-camp to General Pierre G.T. Beauregard and participated in the capture of Fort Sumter. He later took part in the First Battle of Manassas with Beauregard. In 1862 Chesnut served as Chief of the Department of the Military of South Carolina. Later he was commissioned as a Colonel in the Confederate Army and appointed as aide-de-camp to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. On April 23, 1864, he was promoted to Brigadier General and given command of South Carolina reserve forces until the end of the war. $0 (Image)

Confederacy, (Military Related) Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew. Attractive cover franked with 1861 5¢ green (just touched at bottom right) tied by bold "Accokeek, Va./Feb. 15, 1862" cds, envelope addressed by General Pettigrew to his bother William in Scuppernong, N.C., docketing at left indicating the letter was written on Feb. 13th and was from "General J.J. Pettigrew", Very Fine and attractive (Pictured in Monroe Book, pg. 43). Estimate  $200 - 300. Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew was born in Tyrrell County, North Carolina, on July 4, 1828. Upon graduation from the University of North Carolina in 1847, President Polk appointed him as an assistant professor at the Naval Observatory in Washington. He was elected to the South Carolina legislature in 1856. Active in the militia, he was a colonel in the 1st Regiment of Rifles in Charleston and saw service in Charleston Harbor during the fateful days of April 1861. In May 1861, he enlisted in Hampton's Legion where he was elected colonel of the 12th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. On February 26, 1862, he was commissioned as a brigadier general. His military service was marked with repeated bravery. During the Battle of Seven Pines he was wounded, bayonetted and captured. Upon his exchange two months later, he commanded the defenses of Petersburg, Virginia. He later commanded a brigade under Major General Henry Heth at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When General Heth was wounded on the first day of fighting, General Pettigrew took command of his division and led them in "Pickett's Charge." Although wounded in the hand, he was one of the last to leave the field. After the Battle of Gettysburg, General Pettigrew was in command of a portion of the rear guard. During the Confederate retreat to the Potomac River, he was mortally wounded on July 14, 1863, at Falling Waters, Maryland, and died three days later near Bunker Hill, Virginia. $0 (Image)