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Stampless PAID cover with the Selma, Ala CDS and handstamp PAID (no rate) Type A 28 NOV. Military Address to Mr. J. J. Stewart, Gen Maury's HQ (Headquarters), AAG Dept (Assistant Adjutant General), Mobile (Ala). Commercially made cover with a back flap opening tear and a little very light foxing. Dabney Herndon Maury (1822-1900) was a lesser known Confederate general. He was from Fredericksburg, Va, and was an 1846 graduate of West Point who had distinguished service in the pre-war US Army. At the beginning of the war, he left the US Army and entered Confederate service as a Colonel and Chief of Staff to General Van Dorn in the Trans-Mississippi. He was subsequently promoted Brig-Gen in March 1862 and Maj-Gen in November 1862. In 1862, he assumed command at Mobile and ably defended Mobile until the end of the war. After the war, he founded the Southern Historical Society and served for four years as the US Minister to Columbia. He died in Peoria, Ill, and is buried in Fredericksburg, Va. Could find nothing on the addressee, J. J. Stewart. The address suggests that he was an AAG member of General Maury's staff in Mobile, but he is not listed as an official member of the General's staff nor could I find his name on the army rolls. He may have been a volunteer unofficial member of the General's staff.

$200.00

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