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Sale 92: The Summer Sale

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Confederate States of America

Lot 2342    

Confederacy, (Military Addresses) Col. John A. Washington, Care of Gen Robert E. Lee, Richmond Va., small cover from his wife with partial "Salem Fauquier, Va. Jun 21" cds with day updated to "24", matching "Paid" handstamp (CSA A) with ms. "5" cent rating, docketed "Mrs J.B. Alexander, June 21, 1861" at left, Very Fine cover mailed only two month prior to his death.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

John Augustine Washington III was the great-grand nephew of George Washington and the last private owner of Mount Vernon. John Augustine and his family vacated Mount Vernon for their new home Waveland plantation in February 1860. About a year later, John Augustine joined the Confederate Army as a lieutenant colonel, and he served as aide-de-camp to his relative by marriage, General Robert E. Lee. In September 1861, John Augustine was killed during a reconnaissance mission at the Battle of Cheat Mountain by a Union bushwhacker. In a letter to John's teenage daughter Louisa, Lee painfully informed her that her father "fell in the cause to which he had devoted all his energies, and which his noble heart was earnestly enlisted." The two men had shared many conversations and moments together as tent mates, and Lee admired his unflinching "devotion to Almighty God," assuring Louisa that "He is now safely in Heaven." John Augustine was buried in the Zion Episcopal Churchyard in Charles Town, West Virginia, one of several Washington family members who fought and died for Southern independence.

Realized: $650

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