SC1294

USA #26 Grid Cancel and the matching small double circle Camden SC CDS at the left 9 FEB (1861) USA Used in CSA South Carolina only 5 days after the formation of the Confederate government. Receiving docketing at the left dates the cover to 1861. From the Virginia Blackford Family Correspondence addressed to Mr. L. M. Blackford, Staunton, Virginia. Virginia did not secede until April 17, 1861. Cover is, therefore, from Confederate South Carolina to still Union Virginia. Exceptionally clean cover opened from the bottom. Launcelot (Lancelot) Minor Blackford (1837-1914), an 1859 graduate of the University of Virginia, enlisted in the Virginia Rockbridge Artillery 9/2/1861. He was later commissioned and served for a time as an advocate in the military court system of Longstreet’s Corps. Later in 1864, he was transferred to the 24th Va Inf where he served as the adjutant.

$250.00

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