CSA 6, 5¢ light blue pair (4 margins) tied bold AUGUSTA GA SEP 18 double-circle datestamp on hotel ad cover to Mrs. Porter King Marion, Ala. Back flaps have large blue ad for Planters’ Hotel, Augusta, Ga., S.B. Robbins, Proprietor with picture of the hotel. Click here to see address side of cover. Ex Paul Boschung. $600.

 

Porter King was a lawyer and plantation owner, a member of the Alabama legislature and a circuit court judge in Alabama. He graduated at age 18 from University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He first enlisted 24 April 1861 at age 37 as a captain in Company G, 4th Alabama Infantry, Captain King’s Company K, (Marion Light Infantry). Discharged 22 April 1861 by expiration of term at Yorktown. 1 May 1862 elected Lt. Col. In Field & Staff Alabama 41st Infantry, Col. Talbird’s Regiment. The Library of Congress has a map drawn of the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) by Capt. Porter King, 4th Alabama Regiment.