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CSA #12c (AD) Greenish-Blue (4-Margin) with the Richmond, Va CDS Powell Type 5d 2 AUG 1863. Full Military Address to Lieut D. A. Timberlake Co G 4th Va Cavalry, Gen Fitz Lee's Brigade, Culpeper C. House, Va. Coarse brown paper cover which may be homemade. Very Fine. David Algenon Timberlake (1833-1901) enlisted as a private in Co G 4th Va Cav 5/9/1861. He was commissioned 2nd Lieut 4/25/1862 and promoted Capt 10/11/1863. He is listed as wounded at Fisher's Hill (Va) 10/9/1864 and hospitalized in Richmond returning to his unit 1/1/1865. He was paroled at Richmond 5/1/1865. Fitzhugh Lee (1835-1905), a nephew of Robert E. Lee and an 1856 graduate of West Point, was a very prominent CSA cavalry general during the war. After the war, he was elected governor of Virginia in 1885 and was appointed later as consul-general in Havana in 1893 by President Grover Cleveland. When war with Spain broke out, he was commissioned Maj-Gen of Volunteers and served in the US Army until he retired in 1901.

$150.00

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