CSA #13, 20¢ green with 4 nice margins all around used with pencil manuscript cancel of “Beaver dam Dept Va Oct 3rd 64” (Hanover County) on lemon cover addressed to “Brig Genl Taliferro James Island Charleston South Carolina”                        

William Booth Taliaferro (December 28, 1822 – February 27, 1898) was a U.S. Army officer, lawyer, legislator, and Confederate general rising to the rank of Major General during the War. Taliaferro was born to a prominent family of Italian-English origin who settled in Virginia in the 17th century. He was the nephew of  James A. Seddon who was CSA Secretary of War.  Taliaferro attended  both Harvard and William and Mary and had an illustrious military career. During the period this cover was sent, Taliaferro (pronounced Tolliver) was in command of the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida as commander of the district of Savannah.  During the famous assault on Battery Wagner, July, 1863, he had charge of the defenses and troops on Morris island, and next month he took command of a division on James island. Full bio enclosed.

CSA #13d, 20¢ green diagonal bisect (2 creases) tied by double strike of red ALEXANDRIA / LA. cds on homemade cover addressed to “Sergt Rober J. Magee, Care Capt. V. Terrell, ‘Terrell Dragoons’, Port Hudson, La.” 2010 CSA certificate #05519. A rare item with a red cancel $3,000.

Robert J. Magee initially enlisted as a sergeant in Company A, but transferred to Company B where he was accepted as 1st Lieut and then Captain in the 4th Mississippi Cavalry. He was enlisted at Pass Christain, LA by Lieut. Devereaux. The 4th Miss. Cav was organized in late 1862 by the consolidation of two previously formed Mississippi Cavalry Battalions – Hughes and Stockdales’s. Both of these units would reappear individually later in the War, but in both cases they were second organizations formed by the same commanding officers and given their previous designations. Company B was also known as the  Copiah Horse Guards (raised in Copiah County, MS). Terrell's company of mounted rangers, 48 men, were attached to Colonel Gantt's Cavalry command on outpost duty around Port Hudson in January, 1863. The Fourth Mississippi Cavalry spent its entire career in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana (and, as it was subsequently renamed, the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana)

$3,000.

CSA #13d, 20¢ green diagonal bisect tied AUGUSTA / Ga. // OCT / 6 [1864] cds on cover to “Mrs. Albert Smith, Care Lieut Col. A. J. (or G.) Smith, Chief of Pay Department, Macon, Georgia”, scuffs along top right and down middle of cds where someone tried to scrape off what appears to have been residue of some sort. With a name like Smith, you’ll have to do the research on the officer yourself, but nice address.  $1,900.

$1,900.

$900.

CSA #13a, 20¢ yellow green top sheet margin with lightly struck blue PETERSBURG / Va. cds on cover addressed to Miss Ella Norman, Care Rev G. G. Norman, Washington, Georgia, light file fold across bottom, signed by Dietz and with 1945 Royal Philatelic Society certificate #26936. $1,100.

$1,100.

CSA #13d, 20¢ green diagonal bisect (lower left corner replaced) tied CHARLESTON / S.C. / JUL cds on cover to Mr. Edward McCrady, Manchester, So Ca; 1987 PF certificate #0167880 stating genuine repaired diagonal half used as 10¢ on cover; diagonal crease through middle of cover. $750.

Edward McCrady was a Major promoted to Lt. Col. with the SC 1st Infantry with action that spanned dozens of top battles from Fort Sumter April 12, 1861 to Five Forks 1 April 1865 – it reads like a list of the most important battles of the war. He was wounded at 2nd Manassas and disabled in 1863. He headed Co K from Charleston, the Meagher Guards. McCrady was a prominent lawyer, jurist and theologian who served as Federal District Attorney before the war. He resigned that post to support secession and was a signer of the 1861 Ordinance of Secession. 

$750.

CSA #13d, 20¢ green diagonal bisect tied CHARLESTON / S.C. / OCT / 21 cds on cover to Miss Eliza T. Prescot, Care of Mr. Elias Earle, Anderson CH, SC; cover a bit rumpled and reduced with top back flap missing.  $750.

$750.

CSA #13d, 20¢ green diagonal bisect with somewhat clipped corners, tied light BROWNSVILLE / TEX. / 3 MAY cds with second fuller strike at left on cover to Miss Sallie A. McGehee, Prairie Lea Texas. During the Civil War, men from Prairie Lea served with Hood's Texas Brigade and took part in the ill-fated Sibley Campaign in New Mexico. Residents raised money to send for the abandoned and destitute troops. A tax was imposed to raise funds for local families who had lost their breadwinners in the war. Slightly reduced at left and a bit worn.  $1,200.

$1,200.

CSA #13d, 20¢ green diagonal bisect (pre-use crease) tied by bold neat GREENVILLE / S.C. // NOV / 17 cds on cover to Dr. Theodore G. Croft, Aiken, So. Ca.; 1958 PF Certificate #9100. $1,700.

$1,700.

CSA #13, 20¢ green canceled by Army of Northern Virginia target cacnel on cover addressed to George E. Tabb Sen, Glen Allen PO, Henrico Co., Va with 2010 CSA Certificate stating genuine but with outer ring of the cancel typing the stamp to the cover added plus minor tear in the cover to the left of the stamp.   $500.

$500.

CSA #13, 20¢ Green, slight pre-use crease, tied by RICHMOND / Va. cds on linen-lined “money envelope” to Miss Mary F. Branch, Ballsville, Powhatan Co Va., July 11, 1864 docketing, folded over at top, Fine, 2011 $1,250.  $600.

$600.