SHELBYVILLE / TE DUE (no rate), New Dietz type II with soldier docketing up left side from a private in the 24 NC Vols. and addressed to Mitchel Co, N.C., fresh homemade cover reduced slightly on 3 sides

RICHMOND / VA. JUN 28, 1863 DUE 10 soldier's cover with regimental docketing up the left side, as required, fresh clean cover

Soldier's Due cover, no rate, on tiny homemade cover to "Mrs. Dore S. Clark, Attalaville, Attala County, Miss." with soldier endorsement from "Parsons (?) Regt, Finegan's (?) Brig Cav(alry), didn't spend time on the soldier history - worth research, Very Fine

Manuscript "Due 10" on soldier's cover and with a manuscript "Augusta, Georgia" town marking as part of the endorsement "Lt. J. L. Heath, Comp D 23 Ga Baty" on envelope made from an extremely high rag brown butcher paper sent to "Mrs. Isaac. P. Heath, Girard P. Office, Burke County, Ga.". The "Augusta, Ga" and "Due" notations are something the soldier probably added against regulations. Most interesting. Ex-Sam Zimmerman

RICHMOND / Va./MAY/25/1862 cds with soldier's DUE 10 on cover endorsed by " ?? Danham, Jeff Davis Legion, Co. ?" to Mrs. H. M. Dunham, Riceboro, Ga." where it was forwarded with handstamped PAID 5 (value in ms), type I, to "Johnstons Station Gulf Rail Road Ga.", bit reduced at left and some file folds which make the light ink hard to translate. This is from Sgt. Thomas Dunham to his sister. Thomas enlisted in the 6th Va. Cav, was wounded in the head at Burk's Station, transferred to the Jeff Davis Cav Legion, Co. F. He survived the war and info can be found on the Dunham genealogy site. A scarce and very nice forwarded use.

RICHMOND /Va. / SEP / 21 / 1862 cds with straightline soldier’s DUE 10 on homemade cover to “Dr. G. N. Flowers, Cross Keys, Georgia” with soldier docketing of “A.P. Flowers 38th Ga. Regt. Wright Legion”. Asbury P. Flowers enlisted on 2-6-62 as a musician into the band of the 38th Georgia Infantry. He died on 1-20-63 at Staunton, Virginia. Military bio included. 

RICHMOND / Va / JUL / 16/ 1862 cds with straightline soldier’s DUE 10 on homemade cover to “Dr. G. N. Flowers, Cross Keys, DeKalb Co., Georgia” with soldier docketing of “A.P. Flowers in Wrights Legion”. Asbury P. Flowers enlisted on 2-6-62 as a musician into the band of the 38th Georgia Infantry. He died on 1-20-63 at Staunton, Virginia. Military bio included. 

COLLINGSBURG / LA / JUL / 21 (1862) cds with manuscript “due” and may be “10” but is water stained right there,  on wonderful folded soldier’s letter addressed to “Nancy C. Loden, Rusk pr Cherokee Co., Texas” with soldier docketing of “A. S. Loden private in Capt P. Henrys Co Randalls Brigade”. Letter is 3-page and headed “Louisana July the 19th 1862” with salutation to “Catherine dear wife…we are 28 miles from Shreveport and going to Little Rock we are in 15 miles of the Arkansas line…some sickness in the Regt…at Shreveport we left Thomas Holcomb sick with a disease of the lungs…dr said he would not live many days.” Many more similar detailed, both human and equine - noting major loss of horses to colera (sic) such that the Col. was given orders to dismount them but he won’t do it and is in danger of being arrested. “If we are dismounted I will send my horse home and make as long steps towards the yankees as I can…my canteen was misplaced…my shoes was stole and I have to do without them…I wish to the thief is that he had to be kicked with them till his soles come off an that wont be as bad as it will for me to wade the Arkansas snow…bare footed one winter and then cut his throat…big fite near (?)…we faught 2 Texas Regts and one Louisiana Regt against ten regments of Yankees and whipped them after suffering much we learn that gen McLellan is dead and men of good judgement say that the war is almost ended in our favor…(to) Nancy C. Loden (from) Abner S. Loden”. Bit water stained, possibly from that Arkansas snow. Obviously, the news about the death of McClellan is incorrect and his surmise that the war is drawing to a close is also. Loden’s military record shows him in Co. “I” Texas 17th Cavalry but Randall was 28th Texas Cavalry so the usual incomplete records; Trans-Mississippi Department.  Ex-Bleuler.  

“Nelys Fork” (Va) March 20 (1863) on homemade cover addressed to “Mr. James E. Hagood, Pickens Corthouse (sic) South Carolina” with docketing of “H. Haynes Co F 1 Ridgment Cavelry S.C.V.” Letter headed Nelson County, Rockfish Valley Virginia asking him to
“direct yore letter to nellis ford Rockfish Valley Nelson County in the cear of capten sharp” and is signed Harrison Haynes who is listed in the military  records as a blacksmith with the named regiment. Whether Nelys Fork or Nellis Ford, I have no idea, but worth more research. Scarce. 

.TUDOR HALL / VA 1861 cds and curved DUE 10, type II, with docketing of “Jno. C. McClenaghan, A.Q.M. P.A.C.S (Provisional Army Confederate States) 8th Regt S.C V.” John Charles McClenaghan writing to his wife in Marion CH, SC; pristine commercial envelope, Capt McClenaghan is mentioned once in the Official Records cited for bravery at First Manassas while serving as the regimental Quartermaster, Very Fine 

CHARLESTON / S.C. / JUL / 10 cds with (due) 10 from “W. (O.) Satterfield. Co. H. P(almetto) G(u)a(rds) Regt” This was Whites Battalion. Co. H (Palmetto Brigade); he was also in Co. “K” of the 26th SC Infantry. Addressed to “Mrs. Henrietta Wilson, Greenville, So. Ca.” 

STAUNTON / VA. blurry cds with (due) 10 said by previous owner to be struck over “5”, but not sure I buy that – leave it to you to decide, addressed to “Pt H. W. V. Z F. Weaver (sheer guess, hard to make out) Charleston PO S.C.” Maj Whits Battalion of Arti Co H in ceare of Capt Holts Cav (?)” with soldier docketing of “J. W. Waters 2 S.C. Cav. Co. E”. , side flap missing, ex-Tobias. John  W. Waters was a private in the 2nd SC Cavalry in Hampton’s Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia; the 2nd SC later came under the Dept. of SC, GA, and FL and later still the Dept of NC and then the Army of Tenn. Military records enclosed. Ex-Tobias.

RICHMOND / Va. / JUL / 20 cds with matching DUE 10 on pristine homemade soldier’s cover to “Mr. Nathan Sikes Coxs Mill Randolf County N. Carolina” with docketing of “Sergt Sikes Co. H. 3rd N.C." Military bio of Charles B. Sikes accompanies. He enlisted in said company as a private at age 27. He was taken POW at Sharpsburg, exchanged, taken prisoner again at Gettysburg where he was wounded in the arm and hospitalized at USA General Hospital in Chester, PA, transferred to Hammond General Hospital at Point Lookout and paroled from City Point April 27, 1864 but died only six weeks later on June 10th of chronic diarrhea.  Ex-Tobias.

WINCHESTER / Va. / JAN / 29 bold cds with ms “Due 10” to “Mrs. Thos. Jones, Thomasville, Georgia” with mandated soldier docketing of T. W. Jones Co G 1st Geo Regiment during the Romney campaign.  It is said that the city of Winchester changed hands more than 52 times during the Civil War. Ex-Tobias. 

RICHMOND / VA / MAR / 10 / 1863 cds and soldier’s straightline DUE 10 on cover with endorsement of “J. M. Carin, Co. A, 4th Regt NC S(tate) T(roops)” (later known as the Iradell Blues) to Granite Hill, NC     

Charleston, S.C. soldier’s due 10 endorsed by “W.O. Satterfield, Whites Bat. Co. H” (Palmetto Company). He was also in Co. “K” of the 26th SC Infantry. Addressed to Sallie Satterfield, Greenville, So.Ca. on homemade cover. 

YORKTOWN / Va. / SEP  20 soldiers (due) 10 on cover to “Mrs A. M. Chapman, Jeffersonville Twiggs Co. Ga.” and docketed from ““Private J. I. Chapman Sixth Georgia Regt” and “In Care of Capt J. A. Barckley Wiggs Guards Sixth Geo Reg”, small yellow lined envelope with part of top back flap missing. John Iverson Chapman of Twiggs County, Georgia enlisted June 15, 1861 as a private. He died of pneumonia on June 21, 1862 at 1st Ga. Hospital, Richmond.

(Due) 10 handstamped on cover to “Miss Carrie A. Raines, Milledgeville, Georgia” with penciled “Politeness Mr. James”. No solider’s endorsement but likely so. Milledgeville is in Baldwin County and John M. Raines enlisted there in the 45th Georgia Infantry. He was listed as a POW captured at Petersburg and released from Point Lookout in June 1865. He is the only Raines specifically listed from Baldwin County. 

PETERSBURG Va. MAR 7 blue cds with matching (due) 10 on adversity cover fashioned from a Danville Bank check form, addressed to “Miss Carolina Cleveland, Lawrenceville, Georgia” and soldier endorsed by “V Cleveland, Hampton Legion”.  Vannoy Cleveland is shown as serving in Company F of SC Hampton Legion Infantry. Large bio included on the prominent families of Vannoy and Cleveland. Family tradition says the Vannoy family was related to the family of Oliver Cromwell. As for the Clevelands, President Grover Cleveland presented a bible to Caroline Yates, grandchild of Nathaniel Vannoy, as a memento of family relation. They were prominent families in the Greenville, SC area.  Wonderful adversity cover with a great family history. 

Soldier’s DUE 10, no town postmark, docketed “From Capt. J. C. Winsmith, Co ‘H’ 1st S.C.V.” to “Dr. J. Winsmith, Glenn Springs P.O., Spartanburg Dist, So. Ca.” on blue commercially made envelope. Capt. Winsmith was wounded at Sharpsburg 9-16-62 and again at Fort Harrison in 1864, but did survive the war and continued his career as a lawyer. He was appointed to brigadier general of state militia in South Carolina in 1865 and served for one year.

RICHMOND / VA / AUG 9 cds and DUE 5 from Member of Congress – signed but I do not recognize the signature except that is clearly signed with “M.C.C.” after it as mandated. Only soldiers and members of congress were allowed to send their mail postage due. The cover is addressed to “Dr. Joseph B. Stovall, Sassafras Fork, Granville County, N Carolina”. Such congressional due covers are scarce and most desirable.

GALVESTON / TEX / DEC / 8 double circle cancel with ms “Due” and handstamped “10” on cover to “Miss M. H. Stokes, Decatur, Georgia” with soldier endorsement “T. J. Stokes Capt Shannon’s Co Reg T.V.I.” and later contemporary “War letter” in different hand. Military records show Thomas J. Stokes in both Co C and Co I 10th Texas Infantry. Side flaps resealed and small cover edge restoration at lower left. Ex-Bleuler

Mary A. H. Gay included in her 1901 book, Life In Dixie During the War, a letter that her brother, 3 Lt. Thomas J. Stokes of Co. I, 10th Texas Infantry, wrote her, regarding the battle at Pickett's Mill, Georgia, on May 27, 1864: "The fighting of our men, to those who admire warfare, was magnificent. You could see a pleasant smile playing upon the countenance of many of the men as they would cry out to the Yankees, 'Come on, we are demoralized! "One little incident right here, so characteristic of the man. Major Kennard (of him I have told you often, lately promoted), was, as usual, encouraging the men by his battle-cry of, 'Put your trust in God, men, for He is with us,' but concluding to talk to the Yankees awhile, sang out to them, 'Come in we are demoralized,' when the Major was pretty severely wounded in the head, though not seriously; raising himself up, he said "Boys, I told them a lie, and I believe that is the reason I got shot."

“Tilton (Ga) Jan 14 Due” all in manuscript on homemade soldier’s cover to “Mrs . G. W. Williford, Gibson P.O. Glascock County Georgia” endorsed from “J.B.C. Co H 2nd Regt Ga Vols”, only such marking  recorded, flap tears. 

Soldier's “Due 10” cover with indistinct brown cds with mandated endorsement “From Private G. T. Hovall (?), Co. K. 55th N.Car” to “Jno W. Hovall (?) Esq., Townesville Granville Co NC” on homemade cover. The 55th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, NC in May 1862. The unit served in the Department of North Carolina, then moved to Virginia where it was assigned to General J.R. Davis' and Cooke's Brigade. It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia in Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Appomattox. The regiment lost 31% of the 640 engaged at Gettysburg and 59% of the 340 at The Wilderness. It surrendered with 4 officers and 77 men on April 9, 1865. An opportunity to do more research on the soldier and town cancel.

Texas handstamped (due) 10 on pristine cover to “Mrs. J. M. Osterhout, Bellville, Austin County, Tex” mailed from the field “From J.P. Osterhout, Adj 4th Regt Inf(antry) (Texas) S.T.” (State Troops). Extremely Fine, Ex-Bleuler .

John Patterson Osterhout (1826-1903) was a lawyer, journalist, and politician from Pennsylvania. Upon receiving his license to practice law in 1851 he moved to Austin County, Texas. He took a hand in publicizing the 1861 alleged slave rebellions in North Texas and revealed that in his years in Texas he had become an ardent defender of the extreme Southern point of view. Although once skeptical of the economic benefits of slavery, by 1860 Osterhout defended it as a positive good and was a slave owner. He even began to question the loyalty of the large German population of Austin County, a group that had helped in his rise to prominence. He was an early advocate of using slaves as soldiers and kept up a constant effort to maintain the loyalty of the Germans to the southern cause. After the war he quickly accepted defeat and the end of slavery. Much more detailed and quite interesting bio included.

COLUMBIA / S.C. / OCT / 23 blue cds with matching large handstamped (due) 10 on clean homemade cover to “Mrs. W.H. Felker, Cross Anchor, S.C.” with soldier’s endorsement “from private W.H. Felker 18 Regt So Cav”. Wiley H. Felker was a private in Co E of the 18th SC Infantry.

CULPEPER C.H. / Va. / SEP / 25 cds with matching curved DUE 10 on Baltimore & Ohio R.R. Company imprinted envelope addressed to “Miss Rebecca M. Poague Fancy Hill Rockbridge Co Virginia” with mandated soldier docketing of “J.W. Poague Co C 1st Va Cavalry”.           

James Wilson Poague (1834-64) was 27 when he enlisted as a private into Co D Va Rockbridge Rangers 7-9-61 but later mustered into Co C 1st Va Cavalry. He was wounded at Todd’s Tavern, Va 5-7-64 and died of his wounds at home on 5-22-64. Also had service in Co H 14th Va Cavalry. Described as 5’10”, fair complextion / light hair. He attended Union Theological Seminary 1859-61.

SUMTER / S.C. / DEC / 10 with matching 10 in circle and red crayon “Due”; endorsed by “J.A. Crawford Sergt Major 2nd S.C.Regt.” to “Mrs. Danl Crawford, Columbia, So.Ca.”; top back flap missing

Captain Daniel H. Crawford, A.Q.M. (Assistant Quarter Master) was the father of Sergeant Major John A. Crawford. They corresponded primarily with Mrs. Daniel Crawford and Miss Kathrine Crawford (sister or wife). Capt. Daniel H. Crawford's covers are addressed as him having served in McLaw's Division in 1863, and later Longstreet's Division. He also was in the 15th Regiment of the S.C.V. and in the Signal Corps, which has been verified on an online Confederate roster. John Crawford was in Kershaw's Brigade, McLaws Division in the 2nd Regiment of the S.C.V. $110.

DUE 10 with matching indistinct cds on cover to “Mrs. Daniel Crawford, Columbia, S.C.”; also red crayon “Due”, great endorsement of “D.H. Crawford Signal Corps Longstreets Army Corps”, Very Fine $200.

Captain Daniel H. Crawford, A.Q.M. (Assistant Quarter Master) was the father of Sergeant Major John A. Crawford. They corresponded primarily with Mrs. Daniel Crawford and Miss Kathrine Crawford (sister or wife). Capt. Daniel H. Crawford's covers are addressed as him having served in McLaw's Division in 1863, and later Longstreet's Division. He also was in the 15th Regiment of the S.C.V. and in the Signal Corps, which has been verified on an online Confederate roster. John Crawford was in Kershaw's Brigade, McLaws Division in the 2nd Regiment of the S.C.V.

CHARLESTON / S.C. / JUL / 19 /1863 dc with large red crayon “Due” and handstamped “10” to “Mrs. Danl Crawford, Columbia, So.Ca.”; endorsed by “A Crawford S.C.V.”, another member of the Crawford family. $120.

Captain Daniel H. Crawford, A.Q.M. (Assistant Quarter Master) was the father of Sergeant Major John A. Crawford. They corresponded primarily with Mrs. Daniel Crawford and Miss Kathrine Crawford (sister or wife). Capt. Daniel H. Crawford's covers are addressed as him having served in McLaw's Division in 1863, and later Longstreet's Division. He also was in the 15th Regiment of the S.C.V. and in the Signal Corps, which has been verified on an online Confederate roster. John Crawford was in Kershaw's Brigade, McLaws Division in the 2nd Regiment of the S.C.V.

WINCHESTER / Va. / OCT / 12 cds with blue crayon “Due” and handstamped “Due 10” on clean homemade cover to “Miss Kate Crawford, Colmubia, S.C.” and endorsed by “J.A. Crawford Sergt Major 2nd Regt. S.C.V.”, Very Fine  $150.

Captain Daniel H. Crawford, A.Q.M. (Assistant Quarter Master) was the father of Sergeant Major John A. Crawford. They corresponded primarily with Mrs. Daniel Crawford and Miss Kathrine Crawford (sister or wife). Capt. Daniel H. Crawford's covers are addressed as him having served in McLaw's Division in 1863, and later Longstreet's Division. He also was in the 15th Regiment of the S.C.V. and in the Signal Corps, which has been verified on an online Confederate roster. John Crawford was in Kershaw's Brigade, McLaws Division in the 2nd Regiment of the S.C.V.

“T Hall due 10 Aug 28 (1861)” manuscript cancel of Tudor Hall, Va. – the post office used by the soldiers at Manassas - red crayon “Due”, addressed on homemade cover to “Mrs. Danl Crawford, Columbia, So.Ca.”;  endorsed by “J.A. Crawford Sergt Major 2nd Regt. S.C.V.”, Very Fine. The Tudor Hall post office used manuscript until “early August” according to Stefan Jaronski’s landmark article in the American Philatelic Congress Book. That makes this an extremely late use of the manuscript postmark.   $200.

Captain Daniel H. Crawford, A.Q.M. (Assistant Quarter Master) was the father of Sergeant Major John A. Crawford. They corresponded primarily with Mrs. Daniel Crawford and Miss Kathrine Crawford (sister or wife). Capt. Daniel H. Crawford's covers are addressed as him having served in McLaw's Division in 1863, and later Longstreet's Division. He also was in the 15th Regiment of the S.C.V. and in the Signal Corps, which has been verified on an online Confederate roster. John Crawford was in Kershaw's Brigade, McLaws Division in the 2nd Regiment of the S.C.V.

* SAVANNAH * / Geo. / JAN / 1 and (due) 10 soldier’s cover with mandated docketing of “E Verdery, Co A O. A.”, military record included. Eugene F. Verdery enlisted 3-6-63 as a private in Co A Ga 63rd Infantry and was detailed to Augusta Ga Provost Marshal’s Office, hospitialized in Macon, Augusta and Savannah. Wounded in the head 7-20-64 at Peach Tree Creek, Ga., but lived until 1921 in Augusta.   $100.

CHARLESTON / S.C. / JAN 12 cds and large soldier’s (due) 10 on homemade cover addressed in peacock blue ink and endorsed by “W.O. Satterfield, Whites Bat. Co. H” (Palmetto Company). He was also in Co. “K” of the 26th SC Infantry  $125.

CHARLESTON / S.C. / JUN / 18 (1862) with “Due” in red crayon and “5” handstamp on cover to “Mr. Thomas J. Gibson, Columbia, So. Ca.” endorsed by “F.A.G. from Company “a” 15Regt SCV”. Franklin A. Gibson enlisted as a corporal in that regiment. No other information noted in military records. Very Fine $150.

CHARLESTON / S.C./ MAR / 19 / 1863, double circle postmark on soldier's cover with large (Due) "10" handstamp with soldier's endorsement, Very Fine. $125.

(Army of Northern Virginia) (due) "10" in double circle field rate postmark (Dietz type B) on homemade cover to Clinton, S.C.; with "H. Tucker, Hamton Legion, Co K." soldier’s endorsement at left, Very Fine. Henry Tucker was a private in Co K of SC Hampton Legion Infantry. $190.

COLUMBUS / KY / JAN cds without day slug, ms. "Due 5" on cover to “Mr. Paul M. Palmer, Somerville Tennessee”, pencil endorsement “H(orace). Palmer, Co. D, 6th Reg. Tenn. Vol.”, red crayon "X", Very Fine, an exceptionally immaclate Confederate use from Kentucky. $800.

RICHMOND / VA. / APR / 1863 boldly struck cds without date or month and DUE 10 straightline on lined paper homemade cover with manuscript “Soldiers letter, Company B 28th Regt N.C.T.”  written from Fredericksburg, to “Miss K. R. McIntosh, Martindale P.O. Macklingburg Co, N.C.”, Very Fine, ex Corwin $200.

Isaac L. McIntosh military bio included. He was 31 years old when enlisted as a private, taken prisoner at Fredericksburg, paroled, returned to duty, wounded at Gettysburg, POW and hospitalized at David’s Island, NY Harbor, paroled and once again returned to duty February 15, 1865. Army of Northern Virginia. Whew!

COLUMBUS / KY cds with undiscernable date on cover to Mifflin Tenn., manuscript "Due 5" and in the same hand "I Paid 5 Cents postage M.S.E.", soldier's endorsement “From a volunteer in Co. I 13 Regt. Tennessee Vol.”, reduced at right with bottom right and left corners clipped and repaired. Rare and unusual, Ex-Schwartz. $700.

(Due) 10 soldier’s letter with undated Bristol V. & T. R. R. (Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), cds on clean cover with manuscript "Soldiers Letter", but does not have the proper detailed endorsement required by postal regulations; manuscript at the lower left, "Kindness of Mr J. B. Farley" (crossed out), indicates that the cover was likely initially to be hand carried, but was instead posted by mail; fancy blind embossed advertising corner card "Boynton & Boyton Atty's at Law, Cahawba, Ala."; Very Fine. A most unusual triple threat of an advertising cover used for a Soldier's Letter with a railroad postmark. Soldier is likely Daniel B. Edwards of Co A 44th Alabama Infantry who enlisted a lieutenant, later promoted captain, captured at Suffolk, Va in 1863 but paroled and surrendered at Appomattox with Army of Northern Virginia. A total charmer. Soldier bio accompanies. $1,500.

GRIFFIN / GA. / SEP / 9 with handstamped (due) 10 in circle on clean homemade cover addressed to Mrs. Emma Moore, Raymond, Geo. Endosed “From Wm. G. Moore 3rd Miss. Battalion”, $250.

Soldier’s DUE 10 curved handstamped on homemade cover endorsed “Private J. W. Barrow, Scogins Battery, Army of Tenn.” to “AM. Barrow, Griffin,Ga.”, John W. Barrow was in the Griffin Light Artillery, Ex-Crouch.  $140.