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Item# 19967
Price: $400
CSA 2-Y, 10¢ light milky blue Stone Y (4 large to huge margins all around) tied JETERSVILLE / VA postmark on narrow blue watermarked envelope to Col. Wm. Preston Johnston, A.D.C. (to President Jefferson Davis) Richmond, Virginia. Light rusty paperclip mark at top right, 1999 CSA certificate 03540. SCV $400. $400.
William Preston Johnston (1831–1899) was a lawyer, scholar, poet, and soldier. He was the son and biographer of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston. He was a president of Louisiana State University and the first president of Tulane University. During the war, he served as an aide-de-camp to CSA President Jefferson Davis. More information about him is widely available online.