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CSA #1 - Jefferson Davis
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Inv-4496

CSA #1, 4-margin 5¢ green tied neat blue LURAY/Va./FEB/11 (1862) cds to Washington, Va. on clean white commercial cover, slightly reduced at right, Very Fine

$275.

Inv-4495

CSA #1, 5¢ bright green with pre-use crease tied neat blue RALEIGH/N.C. dc cancel on clean homemade cover to Petersburg, Va.

$275.

Inv-4437

CSA #1, 5¢ bright green pair showing parts of adjacent stamps at right tied TUDOR HALL/VA/DEC/31/1861 cds on neat commercial cover to Paulina Harden, Chester C.H., S.C., docketed Dec 25 '61, Very Fine

$450.

Inv-4357

CSA #1, 4-margin 5¢ green tied RICHMOND/Va. cds on commercial cover to "Mess. Alex & Jas M Dorman, Petersburg, Virginia", Very Fine

$280.

Inv-4542
CSA #1, manuscript canceled 5¢ green on small 11-star waving flag patriotic cover, Dietz type F11-16, to Mine Creek, Edgefield, So. Ca.,
$795.

Inv-4342
CSA #1, nice large 4-margin 5¢ green, Stone 2, tied CHARLESTON/S.C./APR/ 14 (1862) to Chester C.H., So. Ca., a bit reduced at bottom by refolding, 2007 SCV $275.00
$190.


Inv-4318

CSA #1, 5¢ green tied indistinct blue COLUMBIA/S.C. cds on small commercial cover to "Miss Rosa M. Pringle, North Santee So Ca via Georgetown", cover with small tear at top. Rosamond Miles Pringle was the daughter of James Reid Pringle, the Collector of the Port in Charleston. Rosa never married and lived to be 95. Mary Pringle was Rosa's cousin and write about her in her diary which was published as Mary's World. A small photocopied portrait of her accompanies.
$250.

Inv-4277

CSA #1, manuscript canceled 5¢ green with neat light BROWNSBURG/VA./APR/9 (1862) cds on Mounted Dragoon Patriotic addressed to "Mr. Daniel Snider, Rockbridge Baths, County, Virginia". There are 3 Daniel Sniders listed from VA in the war. The only one listed as enlisting in Rockbridge is Daniel Snider, Jr. who was a 38 year old farmer. He enlisted 10-23-64 as a private and joined Co. H 25th VA Infantry. He was listed as wounded on 2-6-65 at Hatcher's Run and hospitalized at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond 3-26-65. The patriotic is "New Dietz" type SM-1 with Verse 7, Slogan 38. Regimental and soldier history accompanies. 1977 CSA certificate.

$800.

Inv-4309
CSA #1, 5¢ green tied SAVANNAH, Ga./PAID/FEB 2X/1862 cancel to "Mrs. Lamar Cobb, Macon, Geo. Care of Col. J. B. Lamar" on commercial cover with embossed initials "L.C.". Most likely Major Lamar Cobb. Howell Cobb (1815-1868) married Mary Ann Lamar, daughter of Colonel Zachariah Lamar, of Milledgeville, Georgia, by whom he had 12 children. He became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Secretary of the Treasury under James Buchanan, President of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States at Montgomery in 1861, and a Confederate Major General.
$360.

Inv-4339
CSA #1, pair of 5¢ green Stone 1 tied neat TUDOR HALL/VA/OCT/28/1861 cds on fresh commercial cover to Chester CH, SC, left stamp with faults at left, right stamp sound, great color, early date - first month of use, 2007 SCV $575.00
$280.

Inv-4224
CSA #1c, 5¢ Olive green, Stone A or B, horizontal pair tied by light FREDERICKSBURG/ VA/PAID on cover to Castalian Springs Tenn., Very Fine. Description on verso by Van Dyk MacBride, 2007 SCV $700.00
$500.

Inv-4062

CSA #1 variety, 5¢ olive green with CEDILLA C variety caused by an acid bite shown on page 108 of the 1929 Dietz opus and page 128 of the 1986 New Dietz, tied to neat blue commercial cover by SAVANNAH GA/PAID cds addressed to "Mrs. Louis Manigault, Lanier House, Macon, Georgia", fancy embossed "M" on the back flap, notes on the back by Van Dyk MacBride, Louis Manigault was the son of a prominent wealthy rice planter from South Carolina. Louis Manigault served as secretary to Dr. Joseph Jones, a surgeon for the Confederate States of America (CSA) and professor at the Medical College of Georgia. A mini-bio goes with the cover.

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$350.

Inv-4071
CSA #1c, 5¢ Olive Green, Stone A or B, stamp with file fold from the folded business letter re cotton; stamp canceled by grid with matching STAUNTON/Va./ DEC/11/1861 CDS to Richmond, 2007 SCV $325
$200.

Inv-4103
CSA #1c, 4-margin 5¢ olive green Stone 1 canceled with blue target and matching CHARLOTTESVILLE/VA/MAR/3/1862 cds on commercial cover to Arrington, Va., small cover edge tear at top, Ex-Engstler 2007 SCV $275.00
$280.

Inv-4105
CSA #1, 5¢ green tied by large blue CHARLOTTE/NC./DEC/12 (1861) cds on cover to "Mr. Joseph B. Friend, Drakes Branch Deport R.D.R." (Richmond and Danville Railroad, later the Southern)
$290.

Inv-4133
CSA #1, 5¢ green Stone 1 tied LYNCHBURG/VA OCT 30 (1861). Stone 1 earliest use date is October 18, 1861 and Stone 2 not until December 1861. On fresh cover to New Garden, Va., irregularly reduced at right by opening.
$190.

Inv-4142
CSA #1, 5¢ green, faults, tied TUDOR HALL/Va/MAR/1/1862 on cover to Miss Mary L. Minor in Richmond; the Minors and the Blackford were inter-married and very familiar to Confederate postal historians. A couple of period newspaper clippings accompany that are signed by Eugene Blackford and copies of letters telling a mother of her son's death. Blackford commanded a battalion of Alabama sharpshooters at Chancellorsville, but he was a native of Fredericksburg, He attended the university at Charlottesville and was teaching in Alabama when, the day after his 22nd birthday, war began at Fort Sumter. A few weeks later, despite being far from home and family, young Blackford won election as captain of a company of the 5th Alabama.
$150.

Inv-4141
CSA #1c, 5¢ olive green stone 1 with small faults, tied by CULPEPER C.H./VA. cds, date not evident but is late 1861 or early 1862 on fresh plain brown cover to "Ed. B. Smith Esq. University of Virginia Charlottesville"
$170.

Inv-1276
CSA #1, 2 singles of 5¢ green tied together by SAVANNAH Ga./PAID cds to "Dr. Thomas H. Howard, Floyd C.H., Virginia", Dr. Howard was Acting Asst. Surgeon with the 30th VA Infantry, 14th VA Inf and 35th NC Inf.. He practiced medicine in Floyd C.H., Va. after the War.
$350.

Inv-4003
CSA #1, 4-margin 5¢ green plated as Stone 2 Position 23,tied by unusual FANCY GRID CANCEL with matching MONTEREY/Va./JAN/24 (1861) cds, couple light diagonal pre-use creases and tiny edge tear, on homemade adversity cover, staining along top edge, Ex-MacBride and Ex-Bush from his exhibit to show the fancy grid; 2007 SCV $270+
$295.

Inv-4001
CSA #1, 5¢ green tied by FANCY GRID OF DIAMONDS with matching CANTON/MISS/JAN/26/1862 cds to Carroll Hoy & Co., slightly reduced at left, usual filing pin holes; very scarce cancel
$625.

Inv-1275
CSA #1, 4-margin 5¢ green tied KNOXVILLE/TENN cds to A. G. Weleker, Esq. Chattanooga, Tenn. on cover made from brown wrapping paper. Very Fine
$275.

Inv-1229
CSA #1, 2 singles 5¢ green with pen cancels on cover bearing matching manuscript cancel of Waterloo, VA Dec 30, 1861, roughly opened at left, Unlisted in Dietz
$250.

Inv-1254

CSA #1, 5¢ green, a bit gum soaked, tied RICHMOND/Va./JAN/10/1862 cds on delightful small embossed ladies cover to Martinsdale, N.C.

$350.

Inv-1155
CSA #1, 4 margin 5¢ green tied by manuscript cancel on tissue paper thin commercial cover with ORANGE C.H./VA. cds in orange addressed to "Mrs. Spotswood W. Carmichael, Culpepper Court House, Virginia", surprisingly excellent condition for such a delicate cover. The spot at the center of the cover is simply the wafer seal on the back flaps. There is no blemish on the face and a simple white insert in the cover would eliminate that.

Dr. Spotswood W. Carmichael was the last of a line of Carmichael physicians. Dr. James Carmichael came to this country from Scotland about 1790 and settled in Fredericksburg where he practiced medicine. From that time forward, the Carmichaels in succession were physicians.
$300.

Inv-1215
CSA #1, 4 margin 5¢ green tied neat CHARLESTON/S.C./FEB/26/186(2) cds on commercial cover, 2007 SCV $275.00
$275.

Inv-1207
CSA #1, 5¢ green, 4 margins, tied bold blue LYNCHBURG/Va./MAY 27 (1862) cds on homemade cover addressed to Manchester, Va.
$270.

Inv-1202
CSA #1, 5¢ green, 4 margin single, tied neat FREDERICKSBURG/VA. PAID/OCT 30 (1861) cds on commercial cover to Mrs. John H. Cocke Junior at Mattoax - a well known and influential family from the Revolutionary War period forward, tiny tear at top of cover, otherwise Very Fine
$260.

Inv-1022

CSA #1, Stone 2, tied by manuscript cancel of Leakes Store Ark(ansas) on fabulous adversity cover made from illustrated train track vista, manufactured by J. B. Lippincott of Philadelphia with tiny docketing on illustrated side: "some of my make", Unlisted in New Dietz, Enlargement shows the inside of the cover, albeit slightly reduced in relation to cover size

$750.

Inv-1080

CSA #1c Olive Green, Stone 1, 4 margins tied by neat blue COLUMBIA.S.C. cds on neat fresh white commercial cover addressed to "Miss Rosa Pringle via Georgetown, North Santee, So Ca"., one of the Pringle daughters of a wealthy rice planting family

Richard N. Côté wrote a book: Mary's World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston about the Pringle family, of whom Rosa was one of the daughters. Born to affluence and opportunity in the South's Golden Age, Mary Motte Alston Pringle (1803-1884) represented the epitome of Southern white womanhood. The book is drawn directly from over 2,500 pages of Mary's handwritten letters, journals and diaries, Her husband was a wealthy rice planter who owned 4 plantations and 337 slaves. Her 13 children included 2 Harvard scholars, 7 world travelers, 3 socialite daughters, a U.S. Navy war hero, 6 Confederate soldiers, one possible Union collaborator, a Confederate firebrand trapped in the North, an expatriate bon vivant in France, and 2 adventuresome California pioneers. Mary's World illuminates in lavish detail the world and psyche of this wealthy, well-educated, well-intentioned woman and her family in the antebellum South.

$350.

Inv-4586
CSA #1, 5¢ green used with ms. cancel Emaus (or maybe Emory-you decide), Va. 2nd Jun (or Jan 1862) to Williamsburg, Va. on small ladies cover; stamp with tiny faults on the overhanging part (amazing the corner is still there after all these years), some flap tears but all there; nice clean cover
$190.

Inv-4565

CSA #1, 4-margin 5¢ green with huge right margin, tied HAMBURG/S.C./PAID/MAY/1 (1862) on cover (slight erosion holes at top) to "Capt. J.J. Bunch, Edgefield Hussars, Hampton Legion, Richmond, Virginia, crossed out and redirected back to Hamburg. Gum trace evidence of a stamp missing at top left, which one could speculate was a pencil canceled initial use.. Scarce Hussar reference

Jeremiah J. Bunch enlisted as a 2nd Lieutenant in the SC 6th Cavalry, Company B. The Edgefield Hussars comprised a military company raised in the state of South Carolina. It served in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, being redesignated as Company A, Cavalry Battalion, Hampton Legion. It fought in numerous battles in the Eastern Theater.

The original militia company was formed in 1833 by Capt. Andrew Pickens Butler, in Edgefield, South Carolina. By 1851, it was a part of the Edgefield Squadron, 2nd Regiment of Cavalry, South Carolina Militia. On May 8, 1861, the company was accepted into Confederate service as part of Hampton's Legion. It later became Company I, 2nd South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, when the cavalry battalion of the Legion was reorganized on August 22, 1862. Online research indicates that Bunch left after reorganization but could not trace where he went from there. Battles: Yorktown Siege, April - May 1862; Williamsburg, skirmish, 4 May 1862; Seven Days Battes, 25 June - 1 July 1862.

$325.

Inv-4614

CSA #1, 5¢ green with grid cancel and matching AIKEN/S.C./MAR/11 (1862) cds at left on cover to Adams Run, SC, top back flap missing and slightly reduced at top

$190.

Inv-4634
CSA #1, 5¢ green tied TUDOR HALL/VA/FEB/19 (1862) on cover to Rockville, NC, stamp with light pre-use creases otherwise fine, Ex-Hall
$170.

Inv-4635

CSA #1, vertical pair of 5¢ green tied TUDOR HALL/VA/FEB/20 (1862) on cover to "Mr. P.A. Memminger, Calhoun's Mills, Abbeville Dist, South Carolina", stamps with small edge faults, fresh clean cover

$290.

Inv-4712
CSA #1, 5¢ green with small corner scuffs in UR and LR margins, tied neat RICHMOND/VA/FEB/27/1862 cds on blue commercial cover
$160.

Inv-4713

CSA #1, Stone 2, 5¢ green grid canceled with matching ATHENS/GA cds on small cover to "Savannah, Georgia CSA"

$170.

Inv-4845
CSA #1, two singles of 5¢ green in different shades tied NEW ORLEANS/LA. cds on cover with nice blind embossed business corner card, Most attractive
$400.

Inv-5008
CSA #1, 5¢ green tied MEMPHIS/Ten. 1862 cds on cover to "Mrs. Chas m. O'Hara Care Rev W. H. Thompson, Bolivar, Tenn.", Ex-Powell.
$225.

Inv-5011
CSA #1, 4-margin 5¢ green tied by orange SMITHFIELD/VA./MAR/2 (1862) cds on cover to Farmers Grove, Va., Very Fine and scarce orange cancel, 2008 SCV $525.00
$475.

Inv-5030

CSA #1, 5¢ green pair tied FREDERICKSBURG/VA. cds on small blue home-made envelope and addressed to "Rev. Hiram Walker, Eutaw P. O. Limestone Co., Texas.", staple mark at top otherwise Fine

$395.

Inv-5146
CSA #1, 5¢ green tied SAVANNAH/GA. cds on small narrow envelope to "Mrs. A. P. Calhoun, Pendleton, S. Carolina", Calhoun was the son of the famous pro-slavery Southern statesman John C. Calhoun, whose portrait appears on the Confederate 1¢ Orange CSA #14 stamp. 2008 SCV $300.00
$275.

Inv-5178

CSA #1, pair of 5¢ green tied CHATTANOOGA/Ten./Jun/18/1862 cds on small commercial cover to Mrs. Kate Chapman in Talladega, Alabama from her husband Capt. William S. Chapman in Co. "G" of the 31st Alabama. Very Fine

$500.

Inv-5192
CSA #1, 5¢ green top sheet margin copy, probably Stone 1 (Stone 2 EKU December 2) tied TUDOR HALL/VA./DEC/1 (1861) to Buckingham, slightly reduced at left otherwise Very Fine
$300.

Inv-5199
CSA #1, 5¢ green Stone 2 with scuffing or short print at right, small faults, tied bold RICHMOND/VA/JAN/22/1862 cds on cover
$150.

Inv-5204
CSA #1, 5¢ green, Stone 2, tied neat bold RICHMOND/Va./MAR/2/1862 cds on neat cover to "James M. Dorman, Esq., Petersburg, Va.", back flap tears and small piece missing, light file fold across bottom, fresh and pretty
$150.

Inv-5213

CSA #1, 5¢ green with nice margins tied on pristine cover by bold RICHMOND/Va./Nov/23 (1861) cds to Earleysville, Va; most likely Stone 1 but has not been plated (Stone 2 earliest known use is not until December 2), Extremely Fine

$330.


Inv-5256

CSA #1, 5¢ bright green tied by neat blue DANVILLE/VA./MAR/8 (1862) cds on fresh homemade cover to Spring Garden, Va, tiny stamp faults and slightly reduced at top and bottom otherwise Very Fine

$200.


Inv-5290


CSA #1, 5¢ green tied FREDERICKSBURG/VA./NOV/29 (1861) cds, most like Stone 1 but can't tell affirmatively without plating, on lovely black edged Mourning Cover addressed to "Allen T. Caperton, Esq., Exchange Hotel, Richmond, Virginia", full black edged flaps with opening tear in top one only, Lovely cover. Brief illustrious political bio and photo accompany. A Confederate senator from Virginia during the period of this cover, in which he served for the duration of the war.

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$625.

Inv-5291

CSA #1, 5¢ green , 4-margin copy tied neat blue PORTSMOUTH/VA./?/5/1862 double circle cancel on cover addressed to "Mrs. M. L. Simmons, Jarratts, Sussex County, Va"; turned and franked with ms. canceled CSA #4, 5¢ blue with matching ms. Jarratts Va April 24th (1862) to "Lieut. J.C. Simmons, Care of Col. S.A. Wilson, Portsmouth, Va". Jarratt's Station was a depot on the Weldon Railroad. A brief military bio of Junius C. Simmons included. On October 23, 1861 he was commissioned into Virginia CS Defenders at Sussex Court House, VA as a 1st Lieut., but failed re-election and was dropped from the rolls on June 30, 1862; later in Co. G VA 61st Infantry. A nifty and scarce Peninsula cover.

$550.

Inv-5318

CSA #1, 5¢ green (small faults) tied TUDOR HALL/VA./FEB 1862 cds on cover addressed to "Lieut. William N. Green, Fauquier Battery, Care Capt. Stribling, Manassas, Va." which makes this an overpaid drop use as Tudor Hall was the post office for Manassas. Three line docketing up the left side. I cannot make out the first line, the second and third lines appear to say "in the care of Battery ___ the Artillery is at Centerville". Green (1842-1895) military bio accompanies. He was dropped from the rolls of the Virginia Fauquier Light Artillery when he decided to raise a cavalry company. There are 5 service entries as commanding Co. A of 39th Virginia Battalion Cavalry with horses numbering from 71 to 92. Surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, 1865 (ANV). Some cover toning and slightly reduced at top and right. Nice combo of artillery use/overpaid drop cover 2008 SCV $500.00

$190.

Inv-5449
New 03-11-08
CSA #1, 5¢ green, Stone 1, four nice margins, tied Athens, Ga. Feb (1862) double circle on fresh cover to Col. Thoms H. Callaway, Cohutta Springs, Tenn., reduced at left, Very Fine, ex-Gallagher and Fox.
$245.

Inv-5450
New 03-11-08

CSA #1, 5¢ green, large margins to just touching at bottom, tied very light strike of "Tudor Hall, VA Jan 1862" cds (the cancellation for Manassas) on cover to "Mrs. William King Care Co(rpora)l. Aug(ustine). Leftwich, Lynchburg, Virginia", slightly reduced at left, Very Fine. Augustine Leftwich, Jr. enlisted as a 2nd Corpl. On May 10, 1861 at Lynchburg at the age of 18 and was mustered into the Lynchburg VA Light Artillery Battery. He died (date not stated) at Funkstown, MD in 1863. He rose in the ranks to 5th sergt.

$230.

Inv-5400
New 03-13-08
CSA #1, 5¢ green pair, Stone 1, 4 margins, tied neat blue RALEIGH/N.C./NOV/5 dc with second strike at left, on homemade cover to Hillsboro, NC, slightly reduced at right, Very Fine
$350.

Inv-5427
New 03-13-08
CSA #1, 5¢ green (corner nick, pre-use crease) with Wideman's S.C., Jan 7 (1861), manuscript postmark on narrow cover addressed to Pettigrew, Scuppernong, NC; light cover stain at left, most interesting sign of the times note on the inside back flap saying "I shall soon have to fold my letters with envelopes", Scarce town, Ex-Boshwit and Fox.
$230.

Inv-5436
New 03-13-08
CSA #1, 5¢ green, Stone 1, four margins, tied by pen cancel, Old Church, Va, Jan(uar)y 29th 1862 manuscript postmark on cover to "Mrs. Maria Gooch, Richmond", Scarce Virginia manuscript cancel
$145.

Inv-5328
New 04-06-08

CSA #1, 5¢ green tied RICHMOND/VA/NOV/1?/1861 cds on cover to “Miss Lydia Williams Martin, Hampden Sidney College, Prince Edward County, Virginia”. Founded in 1775, at the outset of War the student body organized a company, with the president as captain. These men, officially mustered as Company G, 20th Virginia Regiment, "The Hampden-Sydney Boys," were captured in the disaster of Rich Mountain, and were paroled by General George B. McClellan on the condition that they return to their studies. 

$250.

Inv-5338
New 04-06-08
CSA #1, 5¢ green left sheet margin copy with horizontal crease and roughly torn margins, tied by blurry CORINTH, MISS cds on fresh cover to “Mrs. R. C. Paxton, Sparta, Bienville Parish, La. with routing up the side of “Via Jackson & Vicksburg, Miss”. This is no doubt to Mrs. William E. Paxton (Rebecca). Paxton was a well-known and respected attorney and editor of the Southern Banner in Sparta. He raised the first company of volunteers in Bienville Parish, after Fort Sumter.  The Bienville Rifles elected Paxton captain of the company. His eager company was subsequently disbanded after a few weeks because Gov. Moore had enough troops. He returned to his law practice, but when the first battles did not end the conflict, Paxton heeded the call for more troops by volunteering again in September 1861. He was in Corinth, Miss. during this time. His complete bio may be found online.            
$220.

Inv-5347
New 04-06-08
CSA #1, 5¢ green tied by neat CHARLESTON/S.C./MAR/10 (1862) cds on cover addressed to “(Capt.) C.D. Barksdale, Esq., Suffolk, Va.” with docketing up left side “A.G. Mackey” and pencil docketing on verso “Capt. McCreary. Lt. Ashley, Deys”; part back flap missing and slight vertical cover crease. Barksdale, from Charleston, enlisted as a Captain in the 1st SC Infantry where he commanded Company “L” a.k.a. Carolina Light Infantry. McCreary was killed in action 1865. This command was under Brig. Gen. Maxcy Gregg and with this brigade he was attached to the famous light division of A. P. Hill for the Seven Days' campaign before Richmond. Gregg was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862. The 1st SC was in charge of the defense of Charleston Harbor.  

$250.

Inv-5599
New 04-06-08
CSA #1, 5¢ green tied blue COLUMBIA/S.C./5/JAN (1862) cds on cover, flap tears extending a couple places to top of cover otherwise Very Fine, ex-Weatherly note on verso stating this to be “#1c Olive Green/early impression”   
$200.

Inv-5916
New 04-21-08

CSA #1, 5¢ green with incomplete design at right, probably a right sheet margin copy, tied SAVANNAH, GA/PAID/FEB 1862 cds on neat cover docketed “Off. Business” and addressed to “Col. David J. Bailey, Comandg ‘Bailey’s Regt’, Camp Bartow, near Savannah, Geo.”  Brief 30th GA regimental history and Bailey bio accompany.                      

In September 1861, Georgia Congressman David J. Bailey established Camp Bailey with the permission of Governor Joseph E. Brown. Bailey was an American politician, lawyer and soldier who served in the U.S. Congress (bio included) Camp Bailey was located between Fairburn and Palmetto, Georgia along the railroad track. The actual location of this site is not known today, but is believed to be under the Owens Corning Plant. Bailey recruited men of Campbell and Carroll Counties along the Chattahoochee River for the Confederacy. Company K was joined at Camp Bailey by ten other Companies that were organized from Georgia counties. On December 16, 1861, the 30th Georgia moved to Griswoldsville in Jones County, Georgia. By the 23rd, it was encamped just below Savannah, Georgia. The 30th Georgia was involved in several engagements near Savannah. They fought in the Battle of Chickamauga, as well as battles at Calhoun, Ga.; the Battle of New Hope Church, Kennesaw, Peachtree Creek and the Battle of Jonesboro in the Atlanta Defense. The 30th regiment traveled north again and fought battles in Franklin and Murfreesboro, North Carolina, Decatur and Nashville.

  $425.

Inv-5940
New 04-06-08
CSA #1, 5¢ green right sheet margin, Stone 2 Position 10, New Dietz listed variety (page 128) of ragged oval border used on cover with DAHLONE/GA cds  with "Jny 13" written in the cancel on cover sent to "D. N. Martin, Esqr., 25th Ga., Col Bailey's Regt, Griswaldville, Ga." and then forwarded upon arrival to "Savannah, Box 800" by the addition of a second black circular datestamp, "GRISWALDVILLE/Ga./ FEB" with the 22 day-date written in manuscript." Ex-Powell and Katz. A wonderful cover.
$625.

Inv-5967
New 04-21-08

CSA #1, 5¢ green, 4 large margins all around, likely Stone 1 but not plated so no guarantee on that, tied FREDERICKSBURG/Va. DEC 18 (1861) cds on small commercial cover to Hickory Fork, Va. 

$220.

Inv-6004
New 05-04-08

CSA #1, 5¢ green horizontal pair, large margins showing portions of two adjoining stamps at bottom and slight edge faults at right , tied by "Richmond Va./Dec 9 1861" cds. on cover to ”Miss Achsah Mcloud, Grovehill, Clarke Co., Ala.”, with original letter on 11-star flag patriotic letterhead headed “Richmond, Va December the 8th 1862” from W. W. Allen. Although there is more than one W.W. Allen from Alabama, the only appropriate soldier, as determined from troop location at the time, would be Private W.W. Allen of the 5th Alabama Infantry, Co. “G: which was part of the Army of Northern Virginia. Letter speaks of being in Richmond at the hospital with Brother Edmond. Apologizes for not writing more but that when he is in camp there is so much to do that he has no time. Online research shows Achsah MCLEOD Birth: 17 JUL 1843, Grove Hill, Clarke, Alabama. Death: 31 DEC 1927. It appears that “Axie” did not marry William, but another. Scan only shows part of the letter, which is not fully folded out in the scan.

$525.

Inv-6024
New 05-04-08

CSA #1, 5¢ green, gum stained, tied bold ACCOKEEK/Va./MAR/22/1862 cds on cover to “Dr. James R. Fleming, North Carolina Hospital, Petersburg, Virginia”. I can’t be 100% certain as to Fleming’s identity, as information is inconclusive. There was a James R. Fleming who  received an M.D. degree from the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA in 1863.  He was from NC before entering medical school. A Jno R. Fleming was also Asst. Surgeon with the 21st VA Cavalry. This may/may not be the same person.

$300.


Gen. Braxton Bragg
Inv-6020
New 05-04-08

CSA #1, 5¢ green (faulty) tied neat JACKSON Miss/MAY 14 (1862) cds on cover addressed to “General Braxton Bragg, Corinth, Mississippi” with “Politeness of Col. Cage” at lower left, large cover tear at top left. May 14, 1862 was right after the Battle of Pittsburg Landing. Ex-Scott Gallagher and someone notes on the back “the handwriting of his wife”, but to that I cannot attest. Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) was one of the eight men who reach the rank of full general in the Confederate Army and he was the most controversial. Two page bio accompanies.  

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$225.

Inv-6022
New 05-04-08

CSA #1, 5¢ green (faulty) tied blue COLUMBIA/S.C. cds on all-over illustrated pale orange Columbia Female College Cover addressed to “Lieutenant Wm. H. Kelly, Comp D Reg S.C.V., Col. Jenkins Commding Care Medical Director or Chief Surgeon of Hospitals at Orange C.H., Virginia”, bit reduced at left. No additional information on Kelly other than that within the address on the cover. 

$450.