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PAT398 CSA #4 Stone 2 Position 30 (3 good margins with the left margin just touching the design and some minor gum toning and small faults which do not detract) tied by a partial strike of the Richmond, Va CDS Powell Type 3a 14 APR 1862. Patriotic Cover with 11-Star Flag Type F11-16 all in black with Verse 5 (Bright Banner of Freedom....). Very clean and attractive cover addressed to Mrs. Jane Talley Care of E. P. Pool, Clarksville, Mecklenburg, Va. The horizontal line seen in the scan on the stamp above the postmark is either a light pen-stroke or light gum toning. Ex-Bogg, Ex-Bush.

The cover was sent by Pvt Henry M. Talley home to his mother. Henry M. Talley (age 23) enlisted as a private in Co I 38th Va Inf 6/20/1861 and transferred into Co G 14th Va Inf 6/27/1862 as 1st Sergt. The 14th Va Inf as part of Armisted's Brigade was a Pickett's Charge unit. Sgt Talley was wounded in both feet at Gettysburg (Pickett's Charge) and captured as a POW 7/3/1863. He was hospitalized at Gettysburg and recovered and was subsequently paroled and exchanged and later rejoined his unit with a commission as 2nd Lieut in 1864. He was captured a second time as a POW at Dinwiddie Court House (Va) 4/1/1865 and confined at City Point and Johnson's Island until his Oatth of Allegiance and release 6/20/1865. 		$1,500.00

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