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Item# 13665
Price: $1,900
Nashville Tenn., 5¢ brick red #61X3, margins to in, few flaws, tied by indistinct blue Nashville cds on cover to George E. Purvis, Capt. Rutledge's Artillery, Knoxville [TN], slightly reduced at right, cover wear, and top flap added. The period photo was taken of Rutledge’s officers in May 1861 and appears in The Photographic History of the Civil War…:Forts and artillery by Francis Trevelyan Miller and Robert Sampson Lanier (1911). Captain Rutledge was promoted to be major of artillery and assigned to duty on the staff of General Leonidas Polk. 2014 SCV $3,500. $1,900.