Lot
2339 
Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "Captain G. Ross, Austrian Army, Wilmington N.C.", address on cover endorsed "Col Rains. Augusta" at top left bearing 10¢ blue (11) large to huge margins, scissor cut, tied by blurry "Augusta Ga. Feb 1" cds; cover tear and wear, no flap, F.-V.F. Estimate $300 - 400.
Fitzgerald Ross was a European military observer who was a captain in the Austrian Hussars and toured the CSA during the war. Ross was English born but educated at the Universities of Heidelberg and Gottingen. He entered the U. S. through Canada and followed a complicated route to the Confederate lines. Capt. Ross gives a revealing account of the South in his book "Cities and Camps of the Confederate States".
Col. George Washington Rains enlisted as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Confederate Artillery and was responsible for quipping powder mills at Augusta Ga. These mills produced 2,750,000 pounds of gunpowder for the Confederacy during the war years. He was placed in charge of all munitions production in Augusta in April 1862.
Realized: $270