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CSA #1 Stone 2 Position 3
(4-Margin but a little edge gum toning and very minor preaffixing
faults) tied by the Memphis,
Ten
CDS 24 JAN 1862. Orange paper cover addressed to Charles L. Peyton Esq
Care Saml Price Esq, Lewisburg, (West) Virginia. Manuscript “Due 5” for
underpayment because of distance over 500 miles. Lewisburg is in Greenbrier County
which would later in 1863 be incorporated into the Union State of West
Virginia.
Charles Lewis Peyton (1806-1880) was a member of a prominent Virginia
family and a great-nephew of Thomas Jefferson. Samuel Price (1805-1884)
would become the Confederate Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 1863
and after the war a US Senator from West Virginia. |
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