Items for Sale - CSA 1 on Cover, Section 2

Item# 20310

Price: $150

CSA 1, 5¢ green, faulty, tied by RICHMOND Va, NOV 28 1861 circular datestamp on square commercially-made envelope to Duncan G. Campbell Esqr., Care of Major W.L. Cabell, Quartermaster Gen’l A.P., Manassas, Va.; small edge tears. Cover with contemporaneous manuscript “Ex” at top but no idea why it would be examined unless internal military censorship (see my article addressing military censorship), Sheer speculation. Ex Kohn. $150.

William Lewis Cabell (1827-1911) was a 34 year-old U.S. Army offer when he enlisted as a major in CS General & Staff on April 1, 1861. A graduate of US Military Academy at West Point, he was promoted to CSA Brigadier General on January 20, 1863. He was wounded both at Hatchie’s Bridge and Corinth, Mississippi. Cabell was an American engineer, lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 14th, 16th, and 20th mayor of Dallas, Texas. Duncan Green Campbell (1835-1888) studied engineering in Austria before the war. He was appointed Lieutenant, Engineer Corps, CSA, and was Volunteer Engineering Officer to Gen. G.W. Smith in September 1861. He then served on the Staffs of Generals D.R. Jones and Mclaws. After the war, he was a practicing lawyer in partnership with his father in New Orleans. He was the only son of John Archibald Campbell (1811-1899), an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1853-1861) and Assistant Secretary of War in the Confederate government (1862-65). He married Ella S. Calvert (1840-1902) in 1861 and they had four children together. She probably lived in Richmond with her father-in-law during the war.

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