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Item# 17668
Price: $140
CSA 11-AD, 10¢ dark blue bottom imprint single showing Archer & Da[ly], tied by neat RICHMOND / Va. // MAY / 24 cds on legal size cover (8” x 3 ¾”) to Capt. Martin V. Moore AQM (Assistant Quarter Master) 65 N.C. Regt. Kinston, N.C. with ms. at top “Q.M. Gen’s Office/Official Business,” pencil docketing up left side “Confederate Memorials.” Slightly reduced at left, lightly cleaned and restored, still edge rumpling, ex Dr. Howard Green. $140.
Martin Van Buren Moore enlisted as a private at age 24 at Warren County in Company D, NC 1st Cavalry. and was commissioned into Company E, NC 37th Infantry. He was promoted to Captain and Asst. Quartermaster in NC 7th Battalion Cavalry. Also saw service in Co. D, NC 9th Infantry and NC 6th Cavalry. Son of Col. Greene Moore and Sarah Shoun – one of 14 children. Brother of Pleasant Moore. Martin Van Buren Moore (12 April 1837- ?) was married twice, first to Sallie E. Council (died 22 February 1888) in 1864 at Camden, SC. He was born at Lenoir, NC. He lived in Richmond, Va., for some time. He then moved to a small town in western North Carolina, Valle Crucis, near Boone, and became a merchant. It was here that he met and married Sallie. To this union were born 11 children. After the war, Martin was a merchant in Lenoir, NC, and later he became a Post Office Inspector, traveling through the southern states and as far west as the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains.
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