James Earle Hagood was the son of Col. Benjamin Hagood (1788-1865) and Adaline Ambler Hagood (1808-1877), born 30 November 1826 in Pickens District. He was engaged in the mercantile business until 1856 when he was elected clerk of the circuit court of Pickens District. After the Civil War, Hagood read law, was admitted to the bar, and from 1868 until 1873 practiced law in partnership with Joseph J. Norton of Pickens. He was one of six commissioners appointed in 1868 to select a site for the present town of Pickens, and between 1869 and 1872 he represented Pickens County in the South Carolina General Assembly. James E. Hagood was married in 1847 to Esther ("Essie") Benson Robinson (1829-1889), and they were the parents of ten children. Hagood served as clerk of the circuit court throughout the period of the Civil War and frequently was called upon to perform services for soldiers who were away in the army and for civilians who were destitute as a result of the war. The Hagood papers are in the University of South Carolina and encompass the war years.

CSA #5, 10¢ rose tied by neat RICHMOND / Va. / JUL / 10 / 1862 cds on cover to Cool Well, Virginia. #5s from Richmond in June and July 1862 are always wonderful because they were mostly sent from soldiers involved in the Seven Days Battles, top back flap missing, 2000 CSA certificate. Very Fine

CSA #5, 10¢ rose, 4 large to huge margins all around, tied RICHMOND / Va. cds on pristine homemade cover to "Col. C.W. Styles, or Mrs. Styles, Waresboro, Ga. Carey W(entworth) Styles (1825-1897) was the commander of the 13th Regiment Ga. Volunteers, enlisted as a captain but promoted to Col. On August 17, 1861. He retired on May 10, 1862. He was most well known as the founder and first editor of The Atlanta Constitution, one of the greatest papers in the South for molding public opinion, founded in 1868 after the War, as well as a Georgia senator. Stiles was a bitter hater of everything that he considered unfriendly to the South. His papers are housed at Emory University in Atlanta. Detailed bio accompanies.

CSA #5, 10¢ rose, pale pink shade with close margins, tied beautifully struck bold RICHMOND / VA./APR/30/1863 cds on partial folded letter to “John C(oles). Rutherford, Esq., Lock Lomand, Goochland (Co., Va)” from “John G. Williams 20 April 1863”.

CSA #5, 10¢ rose with four even margins all around used with manuscript cancel of “Dixie (Virginia)” to “Surgeon S(pottswood). W(ellford). Carmichael, Richmond, Virginia”; 2000 CSA certificate as genuine with “top back flap missing and with small ink erosions in postmark”; Carmichael was a surgeon in the Confederate States Infantry – detailed bio enclosed. He was born and died in Fredericksburg (1830-1904) and during the war served in various hospitals in Culpeper C.H., Danville, Chaffin’s Bluff, Richmond and Lynchburg.  Wonderful town and address. 

CSA #5, 10¢ rose tied neat bold RICHMOND / Va. / JUL / 3 / 1862 cds on small commercial ladies cover to “Mrs. G. W. Taylor, Montgomery, Alabama” with note on inside back flap (tiny part missing, but not into the note): “It is almost useless for you to write to me here for I would scarcely have time to get the letter but if any of you be sick ---- me dispatch to --- and they will forward it from there”; Ex-Boshwit, a Charmer!  2008 SCV $800.  

CSA #5, 10¢ rose, four nice margins, light gum staining, tied on cover to “W. W. Caldwell, Esq, Wytheville, Va”  by STAUNTON, VA. cds, flap missing, Fine

CSA #5 10¢ carmine rose, large margins, deep fresh color, tiny scuff at bottom left, beautifully tied by blue ALBANY, GA./OCT / 13 / 1862 cds on small fresh homemade cover to “Wm Jones, Esq. Care Dr. J. T. Smith, Nebraska, Ga.”, Ex-MacBride and Ballard, SCV $850. 

CSA #5, 10¢ rose (diagonal pre-use crease) tied neat RICHMOND / Va. / JUL / 16 / 1862 cds on cover to “Mr. William R. Johnson, Petersburg, Va”, flap tears otherwise Very Fine, 2009 SCV $800. 

CSA #5, 10¢ rose with printing flaw in upper right star (4 margins) tied neat CALHOUN / Ga. / JUL / 20 (1862) on blue folded letter to “Mrs. Rachel Gibson, Griffin, Geo.”, Very Fine, Ex-Crouch $850

CSA #5, 10¢ rose, scratched stone variety found in four positions of one pane,tied on blue folded letter by SELMA / ALA. / Aug 4  (1862) cds, clean and Very Fine. Long 3-page often amusing letter to “Mrs. L. J. Kime, Hilleby PO, Tallega Co, Ala.” from D. R. Kime with a few war references with ghastly spelling and grammar, e.g. "...ther has bin a grate many soldiers goin up the river for the last 15 days General Brag Division is goin to Tennysee...". Nice use of this scarce variety. $800.

CSA #5, 10¢ rose (soiled and small crease) tied GRIFFIN / GA. / Aug / 14 cds (4 margins) on cover to “John W. Park, Atty At Law, Greenville, Georgia”, cover raggedly opened at lower right, long original letter on legal paper from J. D. Stewart regarding a legal case, Ex-Crouch. $400.

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CSA #5, 10¢ rose, clear to large margins, bright fresh color, tied by MOBILE / ALA. double circle postmark on cover to “Mrs. Ezehiel S. Gullery, Livingston, Sumter Co, Alabama”; reduced slightly at right, Very Fine, 1989 P.F. and 2000 C.S.A. certificates.  $500.

CSA #5,10¢ rose (large margins to just in at left margins, small stain at upper right) tied by VICKSBURG / MISS. double circle postmark with illegible date (docketed Apl. 9 - 1863), on cover to “Mrs M. M. Champion, Boltons Depot, Mississippi” with Cobb, Manlove & Co., Grocers, Produce & Commission Merchants, Vicksburg, Miss., colorless embossed corner card ad; reverse is a large blue cameo-style illustrated advertising for the "Wood & Perot Ornamental Iron Works" of Philadelphia with Cobb, Manlove as agents - obviously a pre-war alliance; couple small edge tears, small bit of side flap and ad missing. Extremely Showy and Attractive $1,600 Click on thumbnails at left individually to enlarge.

CSA #5,10¢ rose (large even margins) tied by neat STARKVILLE / Miss / AUG / 26 cds with manuscript day on printed corner card of J. M. Rogers & Co., Druggists, Starkville, Miss., addressed to “Lieut S. M. Meek, Verona, Mississippi / 35th Regiment Mississippi Vol., Col. Barry”, flap faults, otherwise a real Beauty. $1,500.

Samuel Mills Meek was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on November 11, 1835, graduated from the University of Alabama in 1849, soon came to Columbus to teach school, and was admitted to the bar at Columbus in 1854. In 1856 he married Mary L. Cannon, daughter of William R. Cannon of Oktibbeha County, who served in the House of Representatives from Oktibbeha County in 1846 and in the Senate from Oktibbeha and Chickasaw counties in 1848 and 1850. Meek was elected district attorney of the sixth district in 1858 and re-elected in 1862 and served in the Senate from Lowndes County during the term 1900–1904. He served as first lieutenant in Company C and as lieutenant colonel of the Fifth Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, Army of Ten Thousand; as first lieutenant and captain of Company H, Thirty-fifth Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A.; and as captain of Company D and lieutenant colonel of the First Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, State Troops. Family papers are in the Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

CSA #5, 10¢ rose (4 margin) manuscript canceled on clean cover to Mrs. Susie Allen, Antioch, Troup Co, Ga., reduced at left $250.

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CSA #5, 10¢ rose tied HOLLY SPRINGS / Miss // MAY / 16 [1862] on legal sized envelope to Mrs. Sallie Fleming Broun, Beaver Dam Depot, Hanover Co, Virginia with extraordinary lengthy and insightful original letter from Lt. Col. (Dr.) William Leroy Broun of the C.S. Ordnance Department headed “C.S. Armory, Holly Springs, Miss., May 16, 1862” expressing amazement at being appointed Superintendint of Armories with the title of Major and salary of Colonel (he later got the rank to go with the salary).  “The appointment is my highest compliment ever”. Long the subject of controversy about the nature of operations at this site, the Holly Springs, Miss. Confederate States Armory was one of the most mysterious, short-lived facilities operated by the Confederate Government. Established in April 1862, originally the old Jones, McElwaine & Co. factory, it operated only about two months. Documents from this facility thus are extremely rare. On June 6th Memphis was surrendered to Federal forces following a naval battle on the Mississippi River. Holly Springs was occupied by Federal troops June 20th, and the equipment Brown was sending was routed to Atlanta, Ga.  Wm. Leroy Brown was later very prominent in the war, becoming in 1865 commander of the C.S. Richmond, Va. Arsenal. Col. Broun made many well known military inventions while in the Ordnance Department.  After the war, he continued his illustrious career as an educator in the university system. This cover and letter will be the subject of a forthcoming column in The American Stamp Dealer & Collector. Military and civilian information included with the cover. $800.

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CSA #5, 10¢ rose (4 margins) used with manuscript cancel of “Bolivar Miss Sept 29th“ on pale blue cover addressed to “Mrs. R. H. Fitzhugh, Care F. Johnson Esq, Salem, Roanoke Co, Virginia” which has been crossed out and redirected to Hampden Sydney College; The 10¢ rose was tied by SALEM  / VA. // OCT cds to forward with no apparent addition charge; right back flap replaced, Ex Everett. Nice Mississippi use! 2011 SCV $800+. $500.

CSA #5, 10¢ pale rose-pink, comet variety, (4 large to huge margins) used with manuscript cancel of “Concord Miss Sept 4“ on blue folded letter to Lieut R. M. Moorhead, Vicksburg, Miss, Co K. 2nd Reg Miss S[tate] T[roops] from his wife, Mary, telling him of family health problems, planting the fields without him, etc.; some file splits and bit of staining. 2011 SCV $800. $400.

CSA #5, 10¢ rose with (4 margins with 3 very large margins) tied by Charleston / S.C. // Jul / 5 cds on cover to Mrs. James C. Furman, Greenville S.C.,  signed J. M[urray] Bartels – famed dealer of old. $550.

James Clement Furman (1809-1891) was an influential political figure in the community and the first president of Furman University, a school that his father, Dr. Richard Furman, worked to found. James Furman, an ardent states’ rights supporter, was also heavily involved in politics. In 1860, he secured an appointment as one of the Greenville delegates to attend the Secession Convention and on December 20, 1860, was one of the signers of the Ordinance of Secession.

CSA #5, 10¢ Rose tied by indistinct town postmark on embossed ladies cover to Miss Abby M. Kent, Osyka, Miss; reduced at left and bit of staining, Ex Bogg  $350.

CSA #5, 10¢ rose tied on cover by neat STAUNTON / Va. // SEP / 6 cds on cover to Mrs. Mary Edgar Mauzy, Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co [West] Va routed Via Lynchburg; sealed flap tear extending to tiny tear at bottom face. The Mauzy Correspondence is well known and is the souce of a number of West Virginia covers. Richard Mauzy was the editor and publisher of the Staunton Spectator (newspaper).  $425.

CSA #5, 10¢ rose used with manuscript cancel of Cartersville [Ga] May 18 ’63, stamp torn in half upon opening, addressed to Mrs. J. C. McRae, Clayville, Georgia (part of an original address in different hand / ink crossed out in favor of new address)  $220.

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