AF218

Turned Cover - Outside 2nd Use CSA #6 Horz Pair (4-Margin) with the Army of Northern Virginia Field Target Cancel. From the Blackford Correspondence with Military Address to Lancelot M. Blackford Esq, Military Court, Care of General Longdtreet, A. N. Virginia, Winchester. Period docketing at the left "Mr. Wm M. Blackford Rec'd July 15, 1863." Lancelot Minor Blackford (1837-1914), an 1859 graduate of the University of Virginia, enlisted in the Rockbridge Artillery 9/2/1861. He was later commissioned and served for a time as an advocate in the military court system of Longstreet’s Corps. Later in 1864, he was transferred to the 24th Va Inf where he served as the adjutant. William Matthews Blackford, the sender, was the addressee’s father. No explanation as to why the father would use an army postmark, but may have given the cover to one of his other sons in the army to post for him. The Backford family papers 1742-1953 are archived at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Inside First Use is from Montgomery, Ala with a pair of CSA #6 stamps partially removed and addressed to W. M. Blackford Esq Cashr (Cashier), Lynchburg, Va. Advertising Cover with a large circular cameo design on the backflap in red with white letters for the Central Bank of Alabama in Montgomery, Ala. Clean cover with minor backflap tears. Ex-Bush General Issue Stamps Exhibit.

$950.00

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