Items for Sale - Postmasters' Provisionals on Cover, Section Three
16628

Item# 16628

Price: $650

Thomasville, Ga., 5¢ black #82XU1 with bold Thomasville Jun 22 [1861] town postmark on entire to Hon. H. L. Benning (later Confederate brigadier general), Columbus, Ga., JUN / 1 [1861] FIRST DAY OF CONFEDERATE POSTAL SERVICE control on back flaps (this control date not listed in Scott which lists only 4 dated controls, this would be a 5th); 1996 CSA Certificate stating genuine June 1 [1861] control marking (control is necessarily before date of use). Opening tears across the top, worth professional restoration. ONLY 8 RECORDED IN CROWN SURVEYS. SCV $750 as regular use (not first day date). $650.

Brigadier-General Henry Lewis Benning (1814-1875) entered the Confederate service as colonel of the 17th Georgia regiment, which he raised, and for some time was in command of Toombs' brigade of the army in Virginia.  In little more than a year from his enlistment he was promoted to brigadier-general, and he was frequently in command of Hood's famous division of the First Corps, participating with gallantry in the battles of Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Wilderness, Thoroughfare Gap, Malvern Hill, Lookout Valley, Fort London, Knoxville, Petersburg, Farmville and other bloody engagements. He was also a lawyer, legislator and judge on the Georgia Supreme Court.

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