VA3396

CSA #12c (AD) Greenish-Blue (4-Margin) tied by the Richmond, Va CDS Powell Type 6i 12 JAN (1864). Small signature in the right upper corner "M R H Garnett M C (Member of Congress)" is that of Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett a member of the First Confederate Congress representing Virginia. There are not many covers signed by a Confederate Congressman in office since they did not have the free franking privilege and had to pay the regular postage. Addressed in Congressman Garnett's hand to a relative Mrs Marie H. Garnett, Loretto, Essex Co., Va. Exceptionally clean cover. Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (1821-1864), a graduate of the University of Virginia and a lawyer by profession in Loretto, Virginia, was active in politics. He served in the Virginia House of delegates (1854-1856), the US House of Representatives (1856-1861), attended the Virginia Secession Convention, and was elected to the First Confederate Congress (1862-1864) dying of Typhoid Fever while in office as a Confederate Congressman. He was related to CSA General Richard Garnett killed at Gettysburg (Picket's Charge). M.R.H. Garnett was a nephew of R.M.T. Hunter, the first CSA Secretary of State and a Confederate Senator.

$200.00

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