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Stampless PAID cover with the Sumter SC CDS and handstamp PAID 10 Type D 27 SEP 1861 (error in the year date) (could be a provisional but impossible to tell so simply presented as a standard PAID 10). Brown paper cover with Military Address to Col J. H. Witherspoon, 4th Regt State Troops, Georgetown SC.  Minor back flap opening tears. Very clean cover. Ex-Baum Collection. James Hervey Witherspoon (1810-1865), a lawyer, judge, and member of the Confederate Congress, was commissioned Colonel of the 8th SC Infantry Regiment Reserves in 1862. The regiment mustered out in early 1863. He then was commissioned Colonel of the 4th SC State Line Infantry 8/1/1863 which was a state reserve unit that served locally in the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. He died of cancer in March 1865.

$150.00

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