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Item# 16829
Price: $400
BLACKS & WHITES WAY COVER: CSA 7-L, 5¢ blue pair with filled in frame at left, tied pen strokes with ms. “Way” on TURNED COVER to Mrs. Sarah A. Williams, Blacks & Whites, Nottoway County, Virginia. The letter was given to a post rider between post offices who might have placed it on a boat traveling on the Nottoway River, on which the banks of Blacks & Whites is situated. Inside (first) use was a soldier’s letter with RED PETERSBURG / Va. // SEP / 8 [1864] cds to Mrs. Robert H. Williams, Fords Depot, Dinwiddie County, Va. It is endorsed “John W. Williams, Co. G. 22nd Batt” (22nd Virginia Infantry, Field’s/Walker’s Brigade, Heth’s Division, 3rd Corps, Army Northern Virginia). Cover faults and wear but scarce. Listed in CSA Catalog with CV of $750. Ex Thayer and Roth exhibit. $400.