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Item# 6157
Price: $225
CSA #12-AD, 10¢ blue top sheet margin copy tied partial strike of Richmond, Va. cds on homemade cover to “Mrs. Jno M. Kell Care N. C Munroe Esq Macon, Ga.” likely from her husband,Confederate Naval Officer, Executive Officer of the Confederate cruisers "CSS Alabama" andCSS Sumter." Kell entered the United States Navy at the age of 17 and served in the Mexican War and in 1853 on Perry's expedition to Japan. Upon Georgia's secession from the Union, he was the first US Naval officer to offer his service to the South. After the Civil War, he served as Adjutant General of Georgia from 1887 until his death in 1900.