CSA 1, 5¢ green, roughly separated, faulty, and possibly used before, tied by KNOXVILLE TENN JAN 1 (1862) circular datestamp on cover to Capt. Samuel R. Bachman AACS, Cane Gap Tenn. (slight edge water staining) with ORIGINAL LETTER headed Coms (Commissary) Dept (Department) Knoxville Decr 31st 1861 from C.G. Fain Brig Comsy verbally taking Bachman to task, beginning with: “You have no right to pay for the corn fed to the hogs--it is entirely out of your Dept--you have no right to pay for any forage, except to feed your beef cattle.” Fain continues on in the same vein. Ex Paul Boschung. $170.

Samuel R. Bachman (1834-1862) was born in Rockwood, Roane County, Tennessee. He lived in Sullivan, Tennessee, for about 10 years. He died on 12 June 1862, in Cumberland, Virginia, at age 28, and was buried in Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee.