Raynors HCA 2016-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/17/2016
Confederate Officer’s Letter, written and signed by Major Thomas L. Bayne of the Ordnance Bureau in the Confederate War Department, on official imprinted letterhead “Confederate States of America,War Department, Ordnance Bureau, Richmond,” March 3, 1864, to Hon. W. Porcher Miles, 4pp., VG. In large part, “In reply to your inquires on the subject ... the regulations now in preparation by the President, under the recent legislation of Congress, the Secty. War has placed the States in the same relation to private tonnage as the Confederate Govt. He has authorized the Agent at Wilmington to exempt from the requirements of carrying out a proportion of cargo for the Confederate Govmt., any steamer carrying a like proportion on same terms, for any State. ... The ‘City of Petersburg’ carried out a full cargo furnished by the State of Va., half to belong to the vessel, on delivery of the other half to the State Agt. at the islands. These terms, you are aware, are identical with those offered by the C.S. Govmt. The ship ‘A. D. Vance’, it has always been understood, is the exclusive property of the State of N.C.; and as such, she has been entirely exempted from the operation of the 1/3 requirement. .... Porcher replies on the back of one sheet, March 4, 1864, in large part, “I have diligently examined into the matter as did the Honorable A. P. Aldridge and cannot find that there has been any discrimination made against South Carolina in the matter of exporting cotton ... But I cannot think that the Sec. of War has intentionally deceived us or deliberately broken faith with us or that he has shown any disposition to discrimination in favor of N.C. or Va. or against S.C....”
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