January Internet Auction

Brig. General States Rights Gist, military orders sent by "The Southern Telegraph Companies" telegraph reading " Hagoods & my own to their posts, S.R. Gist, Brig. Genl. Comdg. "; small flaws, Fine and scarce military order telegraph.

Estimate  ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $150 - 200.

States Rights Gist (1831-1864) was a lawyer and militia general in South Carolina, and later a Confederate Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He gained prominence during the war but was killed at the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. Gist was named after the Southern states' rights doctrine of nullification, reflecting the political beliefs of his father, Nathaniel Gist, a follower of John C. Calhoun.

United States Military Telegraph, imprint cover endorsed "Drury Lacy Jr., A.A.A. Gen Hoke's Brig" addressed to Mrs. Thomas W. Dewey, Charlotte N.C.; some aging, Fine.

Estimate  ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $75 - 100.

Drury Lacy Jr. (1802-1884) was the third president of Davidson College. A native of Virginia, he was a Presbyterian pastor at a church in New Bern, North Carolina and then in Raleigh, North Carolina before becoming president. As president, Davidson received a large financial commitment from a Maxwell Chambers, making Davidson the wealthiest private college in the entire South. Lacy left Davidson in 1860 and eventually became a chaplain in the Confederate States Army. After the war, he returned to the ministry until his death.

(Gen. Robert Frederick Hoke, CSA).