CSA 1, 5¢ green pair tied TUDOR HALL / Va. // FEB / 15 / 1862 light cds on cover to Mrs. W. T. Walthall, Care of J. W. Dorr, Esq, Mobile, Alabama, with red contents docketing at left “No. 42, 14 Feb. 1862.” Ex Brandon. $300.

William T. Walthall (1820-1899) enlisted as a captain in Co. I, 12th Alabama Infantry (Southern Foresters [Mobile]) and by the end of the war had risen to major. An accomplished teacher and scholar for a long time connected with the Mobile Register. In 1876 he moved from Alabama to Gulf Coast Mississippi to assist President Jefferson Davis with his book, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate States, of which he was the purported “ghost writer.” Walthall’s papers are in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson.