VA3386

Stampless Soldiers DUE cover with an illegible Virginia postmark dated 9 NOV (1861) and manuscript "Due 5." Coarse brown paper cover addressed to Capt W. L Serot (unsure of the last name due to the handwriting), Broad Run Sta(tion), Va. Broad Run Station is a listed post office in Fauquier County 17 miles from Manassas and a station on the Manassas Gap Railroad. The name in the address is misspelled as "Brand Run Sta(tion)" (no such place), but the cover was correctly delivered with period receiving docketing at the right. Endorsed "Privet C. L. Lambeth Co M 11th NC Regiment." Very clean cover. Cornelius L. Lambeth (b1843) appears on the Federal Census of 1860 as a 17 year old member of a farm family in Gilford NC. He enlisted in Co M 11th NC Inf 7/22/1861. The unit was redesignated as the 21st NC Inf just a few days after the posting of this cover. The regiment was sent to Northern Virginia and was in the Manassas area at the time of this cover. Assigned to the 2nd Corps, the regiment took part in all the major actions of the ANV and its forerunner the CSA Army of the Potomac through to Appomattox. Private Lambeth was still on the roster in February 1865 but no further record.  No information available on the addressee, and no indication of the relationship between Pvt Lambeth and the addressee.

$100.00

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