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Item# 10787
Price: $450
PETERSBURG Va. / 5 cts // AUG / 19 (integral rate stamp, date inverted) [1861] blue cds plus matching PAID 5 on clean cover to Mr. John E. Meade [Jr.] Care of Capt Dodson, Petersburg Rifle Company near Norfolk. $450.
Private John E. Meade was 20 years old when he enlisted 5-8-61 at Petersburg in Co E 4th Battalion VA Infantry; he was transferred to Co. E 12th VA Infantry (Petersburg Rifles) on 3-19-62 and died of disease 12-31-62. The Meade family papers are at UNC, Chapel Hill.