Items for Sale - CSA 2, 10¢ Blue Lithograph on Cover

Item# 20304

Price: $450

CSA 2-Y, 10¢ light milky blue Stone Y with enormous margins, tied light blue COLUMBIA SC DEC 15 circular datestamp on light blue commercially made envelope to Mrs. Jno. C. McClenaghan, Marion C.H., S.C.; stellar provenance of Ex Shenfield, Walcott and Kohn. A spectacular 4-margin stamp. $450.

Capt. John Charles McClenaghan (1835-1863) served in the Confederate Quartermaster Department. He was cited for bravery at First Manassas while serving as regimental quartermaster with the 8th South Carolina Infantry. He died of disease while on Morris Island March 15, 1863, in defense of Charleston Harbor, while serving as first quartermaster on Col. R.F. Graham’s staff. He was married to Mary Sophia Betts (1834-1930). 

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