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Item# 12097
Price: $150
CSA 12, 10¢ blue affixed upside down on legal size envelope tied RICHMOND / Va. // JUN / 25 / 1863 cds, addressed to Rachel Stewart, Power’s Shop, Laurens Dist, S.C. with manuscript endorsement “Treasury Department, 2d Auditor’s Office” at upper left, file folds, sad backstory on Rachel. $150.
Rachel Gilliland Stewart reared 13 children, the youngest of whom was sixteen when the Civil War started. She saw eight sons go off to war and five of them died, including 22-year old twins. Not long after the war, Rachel died at age 63. http://walterstewart.org/histrobert.html