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CSA #7 Horz Pair
(just touches at the right upper corner) Pen-cancelled and manuscript
"B(eaver) D(am) Depot Va Jany 20th (1863)." Beaver Dam Depot was a
station on the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad in
Hanover County. From the well-known Blackford Correspondence
addressed to Launcelot M. Blackford, Box No 6, Lynchburg, Va. A little
edge and corner wear but still a clean cover. Receiving docketing at
the left indicates the cover was from C.N.B Minor. Ex-Galen
Harrison Collection.
Launcelot (Lancelot) Minor Blackford (1837-1914), an 1859
graduate of the University of Virginia, enlisted in the 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.
Carter
Nelson Berkeley Minor (1842-1930) (Launcelot Blackford and Carter
Minor were cousins) entered service as a private in the Va Rockbridge Light Artillery
7/27/1861. He is listed as wounded at Winchester 5/25/1861, wounded
twice at Fredericksburg 12/13/1862 and 12/14/1862, and wounded again at
Gettysburg 7/3/1863. He transferred from the artillery into Co I Va 1st Engineers in April 1864
and was soon thereafter commissioned 2nd Lieut and served to the
end of the war surrendering at Appomattox Court House 4/9/1865. |
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