Confederate politician who served as the assistant secretary of war and commissioner of prisoner exchanges. Civil War–dated partly-printed DS, signed “Rob’t Ould,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, January 11, 1862. Ould invites Dr. Miles H. Nash of Tallahassee to “appear before the Army Medical Board at Mobile, Ala, for examination for the position of surgeon in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States.” Intersecting folds with slight edge separations, and some mirroring to ink, otherwise fine condition. RR Auction COA.
