SC1178

Stampless Soldiers Due cover with the small single rim Pocotaligo SC CDS and handstamp Due 10 Type D (date not fully apparent). Usual somewhat weak strikes of the postal markings. Adverisity Cover made from a printed but unused Port of Charleston Bill of Lading form dispayed flapped up from the lower right corner. Addressed to Miss Mary L. C. Cumming, Warthens Store, Washington Co., Georgia. Endorsed at left "D. R. Cumming Hospt Steward 12th Batt Ga Vols." Very clean cover. Ex-Bogg, Ex-Kaufmann. David R. Cumming (1831-1904) enlisted as a Hospital Steward (date not given) and had service in the "12th GA Batt Light Artillery" which was assigned to the Department of South Carolina and Florida. His tombstone in Warthen, Washington County, Georgia, says "MD."  He graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta in 1859 but did not serve as a doctor or a surgeon. He apparently never married and has no sisters listed, so the addressee was most likely a cousin. After the war, he farmed and practiced medicine in Washington County, Georgia. See FL228 for another cover in the same correspondence.

$400.00

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