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USA #26 Grid Cancel with the small double circle Charleston SC CDS 6 MAR 1861 USA Used in CSA South Carolina. Addressed to Wier Boyd Esqr, Dahlonega, Ga. Period receiving docketing at left. Very Fine.
Wier
Boyd (1820-1893) was a very prominent citizen of Lumpkin County, Ga,.
He was a lawyer who served multiple times in the Georgia State
Legislature and the Georgia State Senate. During the war, he served as
the Colonel of the 52nd Ga Inf
until he contracted Typhoid which ended his service. His son, Captain
Augustus Boyd (age 18) of the same unit, was killed at Vicksburg in May
1863. |
$150.00
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