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CSA #7 Horz Pair on London De La Rue Paper (4-Margin but close at the top and right with the left stamp showing a rather large random printing flaw in Jefferson Davis' beard CC 7-L-v7) tied by the Jasper, Ga CDS 3 SEP (1862). Folded letter written on a lined Ledger Sheet datelined "Jasper Pickens County Geo."
The letter dates the cover to 1862. Addressed to Genl Henry C.
Wayne, Executive Department, Milledgeville, Georgia. Milledgeville was
the capital of Georgia during the war. The letter writer, Elisha
Burnett a Captain in the Georgia State Militia, seeks compensation
($9.00) for expenses incurred in seizing a still per a
proclamation of Governor Brown. The letter could benefit from a
transcription. Two vertical file folds not affecting the stamps, otherwise a clean cover with
an interesting letter.
Henry Constantine Wayne (1815-1883), born
in Savannah, Georgia, and an 1838 graduate of West Point, served in the
pre-war US Army and commanded the expedition to test the Camel Corps
when Jefferson Davis was the Secretary of War (1853). He also fought
with distinction in the war with Mexico. He resigned the US Army
in December 1860 and was appointed Adjutant and Inspector General
of Georgia by Georgia Governor Joseph Brown when Georgia seceded. In
December 1861, he was commissioned Brig-Gen PACS but resigned his
Confederate commission in January 1862 when ordered to Virginia and
remained in Georgia state service through to the end of the war as
Adjutant and Inspector General and Commander of the Georgia State
Militia. After the war, he returned to Savannah where he engaged in the
lumber business. |
$400.00 |
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