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Item# 15361
Price: $500
SALTVILLE / VA dateless 34 MM BALLOON POSTMARK partially struck off top of cover with matching MIRROR-IMAGE curved DUE 10 on cover “To Mrs. Lucinda McMurtrey, Browns post office, Cobb County, Georgia” and endorsed “from J. A. McMurtrey 9th Ga. Art. Bat. Company B” – UNLISTED IN CSA CATALOG. This would likely have been dated May 1864 when he was serving in Saltville, site of the Confederacy’s main salt works – vital to the Confederate war effort because the salt was used in preserving meat for Confederate soldiers and civilians. Written up in The Confederate Philatelist, 1Q 2014 - $500.
James Addison McMurtrey (1837-1901) Lucinda Johnson McMurtrey (1842-1929): During the War, James was a teamster in Company B, 9th Georgia Artillery Battalion. He was with his battalion in Western Virginia and Tennessee from January, 1862-1864. After the war, he went back to farming in Fulton County. Letters to Lucinda, 1862-1864 written by J.A. McMurtrey, a privately printed transcription compiled by Mary Frances Honea Johnston, was published in 1985. The letters are in Emory University.