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Sale 92: The Summer Sale

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Confederate States of America

Lot 2340    

Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "Care of Lieut. Gen. Jackson", endorsement on buff cover bearing 5¢ light blue (6) pair tied by blue "Lynchburg Va. Jan 28" cds addressed to Lieut. John M. Payne, Irish Battalion, Moss Neck near Guinea Station Va.; some edge wear and flaws at right, Very Fine cover in care of Stonewall Jackson sent only three months before his death.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Guinea was the site of a Civil War era railroad station on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad known as Guiney's Station. About four thousand captured Union soldiers were collected at Guiney's station after the Battle of Chancellorsville. General Robert E. Lee ordered the wounded General Stonewall Jackson to be taken away from the field hospital at the front lines near Chancellorsville to a safer location at Guiney's Station. The location is notable as being the place where Jackson died on May 10, 1863. His remains were placed on a one-car train at Guiney's Station on the morning of May 11 for transport to Richmond.

Capt. John Meem Payne was born in Lynchburg on Nov. 11, 1840 and was educated at the University of Virginia. From Apr. 17, 1861 to May 4, 1865, he was in the Confederate military entered service as 1st Lieutenant of Company C, Iris Battalion, Second Brigade, Jackson's Division. With this command he was in active service, taking part in all the engagements until after the battle of Fredericksburg.

Realized: $200

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