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Item# 18072
Price: $900
Adams Express Company, S. Western Division, Augusta, Ga., blue all-over illustrated shaded ad cover showing Street View of Office, addressed to Adams agent “J. P. Hawkins, Esq., Agent, Danville, Va.;” reduced at right, otherwise Very Fine, ex-Knapp, Emerson, Shenfield, Wiseman, Mayo and Hart. $900.
J.P. Hawkins worked for Southern Express from at least 1862 to May 1865. General Orders No. 77 dated October 22, 1862, exempted Southern Express employees from conscription. He worked as an agent on the Virginia Central and the Orange & Alexandria railroads and wrote about his wartime work. His diaries, housed in Navarro College's Pearce Civil War Collection, reveal Hawkins’ wartime express activity, which is available on historynet.com from a reprint of an article by Julie Holcomb in the May 2003 issue of America's Civil War.
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