SC1102

CSA #4b Dark Blue Stone 2 Position 5 (4-Margin) tied by the large single rim Charleston SC CDS 22 JUN (1862). Yellow paper cover addressed to Mr. Joseph Abney, Charleston P Office SC at the Charleston Hotel. Overpaid Drop Letter. Receiving docketing at the left. Minor period ink stains at the lower left, otherwise Very Fine. Joseph Abney (1819-1870), a lawyer from Charleston, was first Captain of Co A 22nd SC Inf and then Colonel of the regiment until he was dropped in May 1862. This cover dates from just after he was dropped from the army rolls during the reorganization of May 1862. Later he was Major of the 1st Batt SC Sharpshooters and then Major of the 27th SC Inf. He was severely wounded at Drewery's Bluff in May 1864 and died as a direct result of his wounds in 1870.

$500.00

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