2022-07 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/15/2022
A good war-date Confederate Quartermaster Department officer's document, 1p. oblong 8vo., written by Confederate army quartermaster department agent, Major Robert Pleasant Archer, "Bacon Qr. Branch, Jan. 9, 1865 written, in complaint, to Quartermaster General Alexander R. Lawton, in part: "It is utterly impossible to procure supplies for the employees of this Dept. at the rates prescribed in your circular as the commissary & all other departments are buying these supplies at market value or local appraisement. I therefore…ask that this authority be granted me…R. P. Archer, Maj. & qm." Quartermaster General ALEXANDER ROBERT LAWTON (1818-1896) puts the matter to rest when he adds an endorsement on the verso, in part: "…Bacon Qr. Branch, Jany. 9th, '65…as the other bureaus of the War Department seem to have cut loose from schedule prices supplies must be purchased on the best terms we can. A. R. LAWTON, Q. M. GEN." Negligible toning, with archival tape repairs at weak folds, else VG.
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