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CSA #7 Horz Pair (4-Margin with filled-in-frame on the right CC 7-R-v2) not canceled. Affixed to cover with no postal markings. The stamps may or may not be original to the cover. Full period Military Address (mentions two Generals, Daniel Weisiger Adams and John C. Breckenridge) to Pr Gideon S. Bond Care of Capt S. A. Headen, Company F, 16th Regt La Vols, Adams Brigade, Breckenridges Division, Tullahoma, Tennessee. The military address would date the cover to late 1862 or early 1863. Very small commercially made green lined lady's type stationery envelope with part of back top flap missing. The absence of postal markings indicates that the cover was most likely handcarried perhaps by a soldier returning to his unit after a furlough with the stamps added later. No way of knowing for sure. Very clean cover. Gideon Smith Bond (1836-1914) enlisted as a private in Co B 16th La Inf 9/1/1862. The company designation in the address is incorrect. His military records are essentially non-existent except for his enlistment, but he did survive the war. The 16th La Inf fought in the major engagements in the Western Theater (Army of Tennessee). The Federal Census of 1860 lists Gideon S. Bond as a "Farm Laborer." He was living in Sabine, La in 1860. Later censuses list him as married and a farmer near Tangipahoa, La where he is buried. Could not find a Capt Headen associated with the 16th La Inf or anywhere else in the Confederate Army.

$100.00

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