Lot
2197 
Confederacy, Charleston S.C. Jan 12 1862, clear strike of cds on yellow cover with matching "Paid 5" circular rate handstamp to addressed to "Hon. John L. Manning, Columbia, S.C.", forwarded with blue "Columbia, S.C. 14 Jan" cds and manuscript "Ford 5" rating to Manchester, S.C., charge box notation at top right, "1862" docketing at right; backflap tear, fresh and Very Fine, ex-Kohn & Karrer.Estimate $300 - 400.
John Lawrence Manning (1816-1889) was the son of South Carolina Governor Richard Manning. A planter by trade, he served in the S.C. House of Representatives from 1842-1846 and the S.C. Senate from 1846 until 1852, when he was selected the 65th S.C. Governor (1852-1854). The office of Governor was an appointed Position until after the Civil War. He was considered a "moderate" secessionist who was sent to Louisiana to encourage their secession. He was a member of the Secession Convention, and a signer of the Ordinance of Secession. During the war he served as a colonel on General P.G.T. Beauregard's staff at Fort Sumter and the first Battle of Manassas. Immediately after the war he was elected to the U.S. Senate, but declining to take the oath of allegiance to the United States, he was not seated.
Realized: $425