PENSACOLA / Fla // AUG / 21 cds with matching handstamped PAID in circle and ms “10” rate on somewhat soiled cover to Mrs. E. A. Ford, Tuskeegee, Ala., small sealed tear at top right. Scarce town / rate. Said to be only 3 recorded to which I cannot attest; none the less scarce, Ex Hall. $350.

TALLAHASSEE / FLA // FEB / 6 cds with matching PAID 10, CSA Catalog type C with CV $350, on stampless cover to C. H. Gingles Esq. Fort Deposit, Alabama. Gingles was a slave owner. $350.

LAKE CITY / FLA // FEB / 29 cds with matching DUE 10 (CSA Catalog type F, CCV $350) to Miss Jane PUrsley, New Center P.O. York District, S.C., with endorsement of “Lt. J.W. Pursley, Co. G. 18th S.C.V.” (AKA The Mountain Guards) Wallace’s Brigade, Johnson’s Division, 4th Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. $350.

James Warren Pursley served in the 18th SCV in the Dept of SC, GA, and FL. - More detailed information on the linked page.

LAKE CITY / FLA // FEB / 19 cds with matching DUE 10 (CSA Catalog type F, CCV $350) to Mrs. Mattie A. Inglet, Berzelia, Georgia, with endorsement at lower left “From Sergt. T. W. G. Inglet, Co. C, 28th Ga. Regt.” Bit soiled. $220.

Thomas W. G. Inglet - detailed information on the linked page..

TALLAHASSEE / Fla. lightly struck CDS with matching PAID 10 (type C, CCV $350) on cover to C.H. Gingles Esq., Fort Deposit, Ala. Ex Roger Ballard. $200.

LAKE CITY / FLA. // MAR / 17 cds with matching DUE 10 (Type F, CCV $350) on cover (tiny UR corner restoration) to Mrs. Eva J. Ashford, Salem P.O. Rupee Coty, Alabama with mandated endorsement of Private J. Y. Ashford, Bonaud’s Battalion, Siege Artillery, Co. B. (Georgia Volunteers). Ex Roger Ballard. $200.

Detailed information on Major A. Bonaud’s 28th Battalion, Georgia Siege Artillery, Auguste Bonaud (born in Marseilles, France.) and James Y. Ashford (hospital steward) is found on the linked page.

MADISON / FLO CDS with ms. Mar 5 [1862] date and matching ms. Paid 10 with additional Paid to Mrs. Borland Care of Carroll Hoy & Co., New Orleans, Louisiana, in the hand of postmaster Samuel Perry responsible for producing the Madison provisionals. Fresh, slightly reduced at right, tiny corner repair at upper left. CCV $500. Ex Briggs and illustrated in his Florida book, p. 138. $300. 

QUINCY / Flor. // APR / 27 cds with matching PAID 10 (listing copy of type C, CV $500) on cover to Mrs. Emily Suber, Gandys PO, Thomas Co[unty] Ga, (near Thomasville), Earliest of the four recorded uses. Ex Oxer, Hart and Briggs. $425.

TALLAHASSEE / FLA // JUN / 2 lightly struck cds with matching [due] 10 (Type D, CV $350) on fresh TURNED COVER to Miss M. P. Witcher, Point Peter, Georgia. Mandated soldier endorsement “C. M. Witcher, Echols Artillery, Tallahassee, Florida.” Inside Use: CSA 11, 10¢ blue (4 margins) used with Point Peter, Ga. July 18th ms. postmark, to B.H. Witcher, Co. K ,6th Regt Ga. Vols, Colquitt’s Brigade, Hick’s Division, Petersburg, Va. Top and bottom flaps of second use have pencil endorsements of B.H. Witcher, 6th Geo Volunteers and Mr. Jno. Heare, Race Track, Petersburg, Va. Ex Briggs with pencil note on verso only “2 known.” (Tallahassee). Nifty and clean turned use with heavy military markings. $375.

C.M. Witcher served as a corporal with 22nd Siege Georgia Heavy Artillery. Benjamin H. Witcher enlisted as a private Co. D, 35 Regt. Ga. Infantry. More info on linked page.

WARRINGTON / Fla. CDS with matching PAID 5 (CC type B) on fresh cover to Mrs. J. D. Alison, Care of Capt. R. S. Hatcher, Cahaba, Ala. Robert S. Hatcher was a millionaire planter and “merchant prince” in Cahaba, which was at the zenith of its prosperity at the outbreak of the war in 1861. $200.

WARRINGTON / Fla. // NOV / 10 [1861] with matching bold PAID 5 (CSA catalog type B, CV $250) on stampless cover to Mrs. J. D. Alison, Care of Capt. R.S. Hatcher, Cahaba, Alabama, slightly reduced at top. $180.

Capt. Robert S. Hatcher served as a 2nd lieutenant in Co. H., La. 19th Infantry.

LAKE CITY / FLA // MAY / 13 (1863) CDS and PAID 10 Confederate handstamp on cover to Mrs. E. C. Benton, Care of Judge (E.C.) Burritt, Jacksonville, Fla, then under FEDERAL OCCUPATION, manuscript "Official Business" and charge box 12 notation. IMPORTANT ORIGINAL ENCLOSURE datelined "Head Quarters Dist. E. Fla., Lake City May 13th 1863," which grants permission for Mrs. Benton "to go into enemy lines via Fernandina," signed by A Adjutant General Wilkinson Call (later a U.S. Senator). Cover with minor wrinkling, Very Fine, and RARE COVERT ACROSS-THE-LINES COVER from Confederate to Federal-occupied Florida, a fantastic use noted by Briggs in pencil on the back as ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED; illustrated in Florida Postal History During the Civil War (p. 120), Ex Frank Hart and Dr. Deane Briggs. $2,300. Listed in both Miscellaneous-Section 1 and Florida Stampless

QUINCY / Flor // JAN / 16 (1864) CDS used as adversity use of a U27 3¢ star-die entire used as an envelope as it saw no postal duty as it was demonetized in 1861 and invalid for Confederate postage in any case; used with manuscript “Due 10” with military endorsement of Lamar Cobb, Maj. ADC (Aide de Camp) to Mrs. Lamar Cobb, Athens, Geo. $250.

Lamar Cobb served in Company B, 2nd Battery Georgia Infantry and 16th Georgia infantry. He served on his father's staff as aide to comp and Assistant Adjutant-General. (Howell Cobb) Biographical info on linked page.

LAKE CITY / FL // MA- (could be March or May) with matching DUE 10 (type F, CV $350) on cover addressed to W.H. Felker, Charleston S.C. Co E, 18th Regt S.C. Vol. Miles H. Ferguson was captain of the company which was in Evan’s Brigade, Department of SC, Ga, and Fla. The company moved to Florida beginning September 7, 1863, from their post defending Charleston Harbor. Mrs. Felker sent her husband a letter to Charleston, but the company had already moved to Florida. On the verso is a penned note, “Respectfully returned, W.H.F. being off at hospital. M.H. Ferguson, Capt. Co E 18th S.C. Vol.” and the letter was returned to Mrs. Felker in Glenn Springs, So.Ca., via Hebron, as noted in lower corner. The original mailing from Mrs. Felker was franked with a stamp, removed from the cover and with a portion of a CDS visible in lower corner, possibly Cleveland, S.C., where they lived out their last years. Also with the manuscript notation “unpaid” at cover edge. A fascinating use. $350. 

Wiley H. Felker was a NURSE in Company E, 18th Regiment S.C. Volunteers, Evan’s Brigade, Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Bio on thumbnail-linked page.

WARRINGTON / Fla. // SEP 1861 cds with matching PAID 5 (type B, CV $250), manuscript “Pd 5 / W.S.C.” -  the initials of Lt. William S. Chapman who is writing to his wife, Mrs. Kate L. Chapman, Talladega, Ala. Slightly reduced at top with part of back flap missing. $200.

William Smith Chapman served in Co. D, 1st Ala. Infantry and had later service as captain of Co. G, 31st Ala. Infantry. Bio on thumbnail-linked page.