CSA 11, 10¢ blue (4 large to huge margins) tied red PETERSBURG / Va. CDS on adversity cover fashioned from a captured handwritten invoice from Co. F, 13th Connecticut Volunteers (open 3 sides, part top flap missing) to Revd. James P. Boyce, Columbia, S.C. which has been CROSSED OUT AND REDIRECTED with “Forward to Greenville C.H., S.C.” with bold blue COLUMBIA / S.C. CDS and matching (due) 10 with contents docketing at left indicating it was sent from his brother, (Major) Ker Boyce, Dec 8th 1864. Ex Doug Baker. $400.

James Petigru Boyce (1827-1888, sometimes middle name seen as Pettigru) was an intellectually gifted Southern Baptist pastor, theologian, author, and educator who was a chaplain for a Confederate regiment of volunteers from Greenville, a Representative to the S.C. Legislature, and aide-de-camp to the governor of South Carolina. Boyce was founder (1859) and first president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The seminary was forced to close during the war but he restarted it after the war. His legacy lives on to this day through the seminary he devoted his life to establishing and preserving. Major Ker Boyce (1833-1891)was Assistant Brigade Quartermaster with the 12th Georgia Battalion (Evans Brigade, Army Northern Virginia), brother to Rev. James P. Boyce. He was a wealthy and successful Charleston merchant before the war. After the war, he was postmaster of Augusta, Ga. Their father’s name was also Ker.