FRANKLIN DEPOT / VA. // OCT / 10, clear strike of blue CDS and ms. “Due 10” up left end on patriotic cover to John McLaurin, Morvin P.O. Anson Co(unty) N.C. with Two Continental Soldiers and "Men of the South, arise, arise" Verse design (SN-1, Verse 25, CV $2,000), W. & J. Bonitz, Goldsboro N.C. imprint, soldier's endorsement at top from “Private D.D. McLaurin, 59th Regt. N.C. Troops,” Very Fine, Scarce patriotic design. $1,100. 

D.D. McLaurin enlisted May 10, 1862 at Wadesborough, N.C., and served as a private in Company A, 5th Regiment North Carolina Troops, (4th Cavalry, 59th State Troops). He was captured at Monterey Pass PA (South Mountain) July 4, 1863 (Gettysburg), imprisoned at Fort McHenry Md and transferred to Fort Delaware July 9, 1863, where it shows him dying between December 16-31, 1863 of apoplexy. Grave located Jersey Shore opposite Port. The Battle of Monterey Pass, fought during the retreat from Gettysburg, is the second largest Civil War battle fought on Pennsylvania soil with 10,000 from both Union and Confederate forces. The fight took place in the late hours of July 4, 1863, and the early hours of July 5, 1863, during solid darkness and a torrential downpour on a precarious mountainside, spanning two states and four counties.