CSA 1, 5¢ green bottom sheet margin pair (faults) used with grids and matching MT SIDNEY / Va. // APR / 5 [1862] cds on cover to Revd. James M. Shreckhise, Newberry C.H., South Carolina. Second pre-war 3¢ Nesbitt entire from Shreckhise correspondence Nov 28 [1860] accompanies with same markings used both before and during the war. Ex Wayman. $300.

Professor James M. Schreckhise (1831-18xx) who served as the Professor of Ancient Languages at Newberry College from 1862-1865. Schrieckhise was an 1854 graduate of Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was the son of George and Jane (Keiser) Schreckhise of Mt. Sidney, Augusta County, Virginia. There is no record of his ever serving in the Confederate Army, though Shreckhise’s letters—see UVA Library Valley Project—express his enthusiasm for secession and his fears for the Confederacy’s future.