Manuscript "Paid 10" at upper right of cover with soldier's docketing up the left side that is almost, but not quite possible to make out (someone else may be more lucky), addressed to "Thos. M. Carr, Jr., Weldon NC, Company B Second Bat., Junior Reserves Care of Capt Ovelman". A soldier's cover that was paid instead of "due".

CHARLOTTE / NC PAID 10, New Dietz type IB on clean cover to Petersburg, Va., Ex-Weatherly

RALEIGH / N.C. blue double circle cancel with matching PAID on neat envelope addressed to "Chairman of Superintendents of Common Schools for Warren Co, Warrenton, NC", Very Fine

RALEIGH / N.C. / JUN double circle cancel with handstamped PAID - no rate but 2¢ understood as a drop rate Raleigh to Raleigh on immaculate homemade cover with small original business note to William Grimes enclosed, Extremely Fine, Ex-Powell. William Grimes was from a prominent Raleigh family and was a landlord in the sharecropping system, cattle breeder, hotel owner and wealthy philanthropist. His brother was Major General Bryan Grimes, Jr., 1860-1865.

WILKESBORO / N.C. / JUL / 11 (1861) handstamped PAID 5, addressed to Greensboro, NC

RALEIGH / N.C. / NOV / 27 / 1862 double circle cancel with matching blue handstamped curved PAID 5, type IV; second cancel which appears to be of different 1861 date. Pristine homemade cover addressed to “Mrs. Alexander Sinclair, Charlotte, N. Ca.” Reason for different dates is speculation.

SCUPPERNONG / N.C. cds with manuscript May 5 date on turned cover to Hillsboro with matching PAID and 5 in circle handstamps, interesting notation on front regarding the recipient being delayed on the journey home due to "incessant rains", inside use to Scuppernong, N.C., handcarried with manuscript endorsement "Politeness of Capt. Caroon", small tear at top, missing backflap & some light edge toning.  $120.

HILLSBOROUGH / N.C. / AUG / 21 / 1861 with matching blue handstamped PAID 5 on cover addressed to “T[homas] W. Dewey, Charlotte, N. C.” Dewey worked for the Bank of North Carolina. $140.

MORGANTOWN / N.C. / AUG / 15 [1861] with matching blue handstamped PAID 5 on cover addressed to “Thomas W. Dewey, Esq., Cashier, Charlotte, No. Ca.” Dewey worked for the Bank of North Carolina. $150.

CAROLINA CITY, N.C. / OCT 24 / 5. Paid, excellent strike of this integral rate handstamp (type II) on brown cover to Carthage, N.C. $300.

[Alexandriana, N.C.] Paid 10 cts in manuscript on lovely fresh wallpaper cover of pink, cream. baby-blue and royal blue with original letter headed “Alexandriana [Mecklenburg County], Dec 4th 1862” addressed to Joseph H[arvey] Wilson, Charlotte, N.C. Joseph Harvey Wilson was included among the 1870 power elite of Mecklenburg County in Gail W. O'Brien’s Power & Influence in Mecklenburg County, 1850-80. Letter saying that he has lost all confidence in certain businessmen and requests that Wilson not receive any more Confederate money for him. Choice, ex Gordon Bleuler $900.

ASHVILLE / N.C. / JUN / 21 / 1861 cds with matching handstamped PAID 5 on neat narrow blue-lined cover to “Miss M. J. Deoven, Davisons River, N. Carolina.” Some small pieces of top back flap missing, otherwise Extremely Fine use from Western North Carolina (Buncombe County) $300.

GRAHAM / N.C. faintly struck dotted circular date stamp with matching handstamped PAID 10 on homemade cover to Jno Judge & Co., Columbia, S.C., light contemporary pencil doodling on face $130.

ROCKY MOUNT / N.C. / MAY / 19 with manuscript “Paid 10” on pristine homemade cover to G. W. Blount, Esqr, Wilson, N.C., Extremely Fine, ex Hill  $200.

MORGANTOWN / N.C. // AUG / 14 cds in blue with matching handstamped PAID 5 on fresh cover addressed to Clerk of Superior Court of Law for Lincoln County Lincolnton; no doubt originally a small legal cover which has been reduced by cutting and folding flaps to present a more conventional size cover, Very Fine; originally sold by Molesworth as green, but is blue to my eye (yellow nature of cover makes it appear more green), Ex Frederic Grant, David Kohn and Morgan $250.

SALEM / N.C. // JUNE / 30 [1861 OR 1862] cds with matching PAID 5 handstamp on fresh neat cover to Mrs. P.C. Patterson, Patterson, Caldwell Co., N.C. Via Salisbury, Superb $300.

FLAT ROCK / N.C. // JULY / 5 cds with matching handstamped PAID 10 on homemade cover to Mrs. H. A. Middleton, Care of W. Lowndes Esq., Greenville, South Carolina; Very Fine  $200.

HIGH POINT / N.C.  // MAR / 9 cds with matching handstamped PAID (no rate) on commercially made laid paper cover to James Evans Esq, Fayetteville, NC with original letter headed Asheboro NC March 7th signed A. C. McAllister offering his place for sale.  $250.

Alexander Carey McAlister was the son of Colonel Alexander McAlister, who is said to have served in the American Revolution. At the start of the Civil War, A. C. McAlister was twenty-two and by occupation a farmer. In April 1861 he enlisted and was assigned to Company K, 18th Regiment North Carolina Troops.  Later that year he was appointed 3rd Lieutenant and transferred to Company I of the 22nd Regiment. In the spring of 1862 he was promoted to captain and transferred to Company F, 46th Regiment NC Troops.  In 1863 he was appointed major and transferred to the Field and Staff of that regiment.  The following year he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and later “distinguished himself by his daring in leading the regiment to the muzzles of the cannon" at a battle at Reams' Station, Virginia.  After the war McAlister returned to Asheboro, where he eventually established a lumber business, which his son.

GRAHAM / N.C. // DEC / [1861] blue dashed balloon postmark with matching handstamped PAID and encircled “5” on amber envelope to Honl Thomas Ruffin, Raleigh, N Ca, top back flap missing, Ex Kohn $200.

ROCKY MOUNT / N.C. // AUG / 27 [1861] beautifully struck cds with manuscript Paid 5 on cover to Miss Pegga Ann Bulluck, Enfield, NC Care Tenson Zoars, flap faults otherwise Very Fine $220.

SMITHFIELD / N.C. // FEB / 17 cds with matching handstamped PAID 10 on cover to Capt. W. S. G. Andrews,  Goldsboro, N. Carolina.Top back flap replaced. $170.

William S. G. Andrews was a 39 year-old merchant on 4-15-61 when he enlisted as a 2nd Lieut into Co. A., NC 27th Infantry, then promoted to Capt. into Co. C, NC 10th Infantry.

MOREHEAD CITY / N.C. // JAN / 18 [1862] with matching handstamped PAID (no rate) on neat cover to Miss Emma Burnside, Greensborough, N.C., Very Fine  $190.

HIGH POINT / N.C. // NOV / 16 cds with matching handstamped PAID (no rate) on pale blue cover to Miss Maggie Stockton, Statesville, NC; with original letter headed Bush Hill Nov 15 1864 from Cousin Charlie who says, in part, “I have caught me a sweetheart and she is a nice Lady…I just now herd that Bartlett Hunt’s oldest son was turned off of the Rail Road for letting a boiler burst when he was left to attend to it.”  $160.

CHARLOTTE / N.C. cds, no rate, with matching handstamped PAID (no rate) on Mrs. M. C. Dalton, Houstonville, Iredell, No. Ca. $160.

ROCKY MOUNT / N.C. // Oct / 18 (date in ms) cds with manuscript Paid 10 on cover to G. W. Blount Esq, Wilson, NC; top back flap missing and paper thinned to small hole behind cds; Ex Wiseman $110.

LINCOLNTON / N.C. // JAN / 28 (rate in ms) light cds with matching PAID 5 on cover to Mr. J. J. Hoyle, Knob Creek, NC;   Ex Kohn  $150.

Carolina City, N.C. / 5. Paid / Dec 9 postmark on cover to Mr. T. M. Powell, Patterson, PO Caldwell Co NC; wonderful strike of this scarce and popular marking; 1978 CSA Certificate #00917.  $300.

LENOIR / N.C. // MAR / 4 cds with matching handstamped PAID 10 on cover to Mrs. John Richardson, Okolona, Chickasaw County, Miss.; bit of address ink erosion and light stains, nice markings. $125.