Memphis, Tenn 5¢ pale red tied by October 2, 1861, town cancel on commercially-made cover of laid paper, bit reduced at right, addressed to Dr. Pugh Houston, Popes Depot, Mississippi. Ex Hambrecht. $1,600.

Dr. Pugh Houston was born in Tennessee in 1803 and was a practicing physician and farmer. During the war, he appears to have been too old to serve in a medical capacity, but did provide supplies from his farm. Detailed bio included from the unpublished biographical register of physicians who served the Confederacy in a medical capacity, courtesy of Drs. F. T. Hambrecht and J.L. Koste.