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Item# 11995
Price: $140
CSA 7-R-v2, 5¢ blue vertical pair with filled in frames at right, listed CSA Catalog variety, tied by manuscript Harrisonburg [VA] June 25 on lemon cover to Dr. Henry C. Sommerville Care Rev. William V. Wilson, Lynchburg, Va.; bit reduced at right $140.
Dr. Henry Clay Sommerville (1834-1918) was an Assistant Surgeon in the Confederate Army during the war. He served in various places in Virginia including, Richmond, Liberty, Danville, and Lynchburg. He practiced medicine in Clark County, Virginia after the war. Much more detailed bio included from the unpublished database of Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical register of physicians who served the Confederacy in a medical capacity. His wartime letters are in the Special Collections Department of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.