CSA 1, 5¢ green (4 margins) tied WINCHESTER / Va. // FEB / 17 (1862) CDS on cover to Mrs. W.H. Harman, Staunton, Va. A lovely use, ex Richard Hall and Paul Benson. $250.

William Henry Harman (1828 –1865) was a brigadier general in the Virginia militia and colonel in the Confederate States Army during the war. He was killed in action during the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, March 2, 1865. A lawyer, Harman had served as 2nd lieutenant in the 1st Virginia Infantry Regiment during the Mexican–American War; he became the commonwealth's attorney for Augusta County, Virginia from 1851 until Virginia's secession. A brigadier general in the Virginia militia, Harman became one of the commanders whose forces seized the Harper's Ferry Armory and Arsenal on April 18, 1861, the day after the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 voted for secession. Later lieutenant colonel of the 5th Virginia Infantry Regiment of the Stonewall Brigade, Harman suffered health problems and was not appointed colonel in the April 1862 reorganization. He served briefly as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Edward Johnson during Jackson's Valley Campaign, after which he was appointed an assistant adjutant general on February 19, 1864.