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Item# 19393
Price: $950
CSA 3, 2¢ green, (sealed pre-use vertical tear) 3 large irregular margins just into at left, tied indistinct strike of SAVANNAH / GA. / Paid CDS on printed Savannah Volunteer Guards Company Orders used as a WRAPPER on CIRCULAR use to Miss Leila Villard, Robertville, So Ca, 2000 PSE certificate 40859. Shown open from address side. Extremely showy adversity use and great exhibit piece. The Heidt-Villard Correspondence. SCV $3,500. $950.
John Wesley Heidt (1841-1909) was born in Savannah and served as a Sergeant in the Chatham Light Artillery, a local independent artillery unit raised in Savannah and assigned at this time to the Savannah defenses. The cover is to his girlfriend, Leila Villard (1844-1929), in Robertville SC whom he would marry in 1864. The Heidt-Villard Correspondence is extensive and well-known, as much of the correspondence is archived at the Georgia Historical Society. After the war, John W. Heidt became a Methodist minister in 1866 and served in various locations in Georgia including as president of several colleges and universities.