CSA 11a, 10¢ milky blue (4 margins) tied RICHMOND Va. JUN 9 1863 CDS (type 5a) on fresh commercially made cover to Mrs. A. L. Rives Cobham Depot N.C.R.R., Albemarle Co., Virginia. Ex Harry Muldrow. $180.

Alfred Landon Rives was born in 1830 in Paris, France, the son of William Cabell Rives, the distinguished minister to France. During the War, Alfred was acting chief engineer for the State of Virginia and later for the Confederate States, which position he held until the end of the War as a Colonel. He was one of the two Chiefs of the Corps of Engineers to General Robert E. Lee.