CSA 11-AD, 10¢ blue (4 margins) tied neat RICHMOND Va. SEP 14 1863 circular datestamp (Powell type 5d) on blue commercially made envelope to Lieut. Col. Del Kemper Care of Gen. (Johnson) Hagood, Charleston, S. Carolina; top back flap missing, Ex Harry Muldrow. $150.

Delaware B. Kemper (1833-1899) lived in Alexandria, Va., where he enlisted May 1, 1861, as a captain. He was commissioned into the Virginia Alexandria Light Artillery and shortly thereafter into the CS Army Quartermasters’ Department where he was paymaster for the Confederate Richmond hospitals from 1862-1865. He was promoted to Major in 1862, then Lt. Col. in 1863. He was wounded at Manassas August 30, 1862.

Johnson Hagood (1829-1898) was a planter, and officer in the Confederate States Army, reaching the rank of brigadier general. After the war, he served as the 80th governor of South Carolina from 1880-1882.