Items for Sale - Postmasters' Provisionals on Cover, Section Two
16627

Item# 16627

Price: $500

Talbotton, Ga., 10¢ black #94XU2, bold strike of provisional marking with Talbotton May 9 double-circle town postmark with date in manuscript on entire to Capt. Geo. L. F. Birdsong, Thomaston, Ga., minor foxing, 21 recorded in Crown surveys, 2017 CSA certificate, SCV $1,000. $500.

George Lawrence Forsyth Birdsong served as a captain in Company C, 1st Georgia Battalion Reserve Cavalry as well as Company G or K (records differ), 12th Robinson’s Regiment Georgia Cavalry (State Guards). The Birdsong family had significant land holdings in western and middle Georgia before the Civil War.  In 1850, George L.F. Birdsong owned more than 20 slaves and served as deputy sheriff in Upson County. He died in 1869.

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