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Item# 16498
Price: $250
CSA 11-ADa, 10¢ milky blue pair (3 margins) tied CULPEPER C.H. / Va. // JUL / 21 [1863] cds on fresh cover to Miss Fannie Ridley, Jerusalem, Southampton, Virginia/ [care of] Col. Ridley; slightly reduced at right. $250.
Col. Thomas Ridley III (1809-1875) is interred at Ridley Family Cemetery in Southampton County, Virginia. The inscription on his grave marker says “CSA – Captain of a cavalry unit of ‘Bonnie Doon,” but information on this is somewhat illusive.