Lot
4378 
Confederacy, (Attorneys) Dickinson & Kilpatrick, Attorneys At Law, red embossed oval cameo corner card on buff cover bearing 1862, 5¢ light milky blue, large margins, radiant color, scissors-cut at top left and scuffed at top right, cancelled by neat manuscript., "Grove Hill Ala. May 30" cds to Lt. John Y. Kilpatrick, Care of Capt. S.B. Cleveland, of Clark County Ranger, Col. Wort Adams Regiment at Corinth Miss., with enclosure that is likely not original as dated Feb. 1862; barely reduced at right, attractive Very Fine appearance, great historical interest. Scott No. 4b Estimate $400 - 600.
Adams was a native of Kentucky and engaged in banking in Mississippi when he declined the Postmaster-Generalship of the Confederacy tendered him by Jefferson Davis when the government was organized. He instead raised the 1st Mississippi Cavalry who saw its first action at the Battle of Shiloh in early April of 1862, just days after this correspondence was mailed to his camp in Corinth.
Realized: $800