Listed as Hake Third Party #3014. 4x6” gray paper ballot with single tiny spindle hole at center and reverse ink signature of voter “P.H. Winfield.” Top 7 lines read “Election, Wednesday, Nov. 6th 1861/For President/Jefferson Davis/Of Mississippi/For Vice President/Alexander H. Stephens, Of Georgia.” Below are names of 18 electors and “For Congress Roger A. Pryor.” Pryor has an interesting history. In 1859, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He served from Dec. 7, 1859 to March 3, 1861. Pryor became a particular enemy of Representative Thaddeus Stevens, a Republican abolitionist. He also got into a disagreement with John F. Potter, a representative from Wisconsin, and challenged Potter to a duel. Potter, having the choice of weapons, chose Bowie knives. Pryor backed out saying that Bowie knives were not civilized weapons. The incident found widespread publication in the Northern Press which saw the refusal as a coup for the North – humiliation of a Southern “Fire Eater.” In early 1861, Pryor argued for immediate succession of Virginia, but the state convention did not act. He then went to Charleston in April, to urge immediate attack on Fort Sumter. On April 12, he accompanied the last Confederate party to the Fort before the bombardment (but stayed in the boat). Afterward, while waiting at Fort Johnson, he was offered the opportunity to fire the first shot. But, despite his earlier rhetoric, he declined saying “I Could Not Fire The First Gun Of The War.” In 1861, Pryor was re-elected to his congressional seat, but owing to the succession of Virginia, he did not sit in the U.S. Congress. Instead, he was elected and served in the provisional Confederate Congress in 1861, and also in the first regular Congress (1862) under the Confederate Constitution. Scarce and N. Mint.