Items for Sale - CSA 5, 10¢ Rose Lithograph on Cover

Item# 20327

Price: $500

CSA 5, 10¢ rose (scuffing across top) tied small 30-mm CHARLESTON S.C. SEP 7 neat circular datestamp, Welch/Calhoun type A-25 – stated by them as a RARE CIVIL WAR USE (Charleston South Carolina and the Confederate Postmaster Provisionals by Richard L. Calhoun, page 16). Most used were 32-mm. Tied on small fresh commercially-made envelope to Lieut. Louis G. Young, Care of Genl J.G. Pettigrew, Petersburg, Va. $500.

Louis Gourdin Young (1833-1922) was a native of Grahamville, SC, on the staff of then Col. James Johnston Pettigrew when war erupted in April 1861. Throughout the 4 years that followed, this efficient and accomplished officer would serve Confederate Generals Pender, Ewell, Kirkland and MacRae. Re-assigned to Gen. Pettigrew's staff during the Gettysburg Campaign, it was he who endorsed Pettigrew's assertion that Federal soldiers - not local militia - occupied Gettysburg. Sensing a "spirit of unbelief" from Gen. Ambrose P. Hill, Young recalled in later years that "Blindness in part seemed to have come over our commanders" on the eve of this epic conflict. Young reproved. Young survived the carnage of Gettysburg despite receiving three wounds (he was wounded in action eight times during the war). During the Confederate retreat to Virginia, he would once again witness another friend's demise. Near Falling Waters, West Virginia, he was present when Gen. Pettigrew was mortally wounded. The general, knowing he was to die, bequeathed his horse to Young while on his death bed. At wars end, Young settled in Savannah and despite the hard economic times of the postwar south, he became a successful businessman. 

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