SC1129

CSA #4 Two Singles Dark Blue from the same sheet paying the 10c rate Stone 2 Positions 28, 38 (the left Position 28 stamp is 4-Margin, the right Position 38 stamp is overlapped by the left stamp and has a large transient printing flaw in the lower value table and a second transient printing flaw to the left of the portrait CC 4-2-v9) tied by the BLUE Columbia SC CDS 24 JUL (1862). Coarse brown paper cover with Military Address to Major Joseph Abney, Battalion Sharpshooters, Grahamville, So. Ca. Very Fine. Joseph Abney (1819-1870) was first Captain of Co A 22nd SC Inf and then Colonel of the regiment until he was dropped in 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.

$375.00

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