CSA 11-AD, 10¢ blue (3 large to huge margins) tied with neat GAINSVILLE ALA JUL cds on cover to Commodore S. Barron, Warrenton, NC; Nice CSA NAVY related item; top back flap partially missing. Ex David Burton. $130.

Commodore Samuel Barron had an illustrious naval career beginning at the incredible age of SIX (not a typo – the youngest person ever commissioned to the US Navy). Barron’s war duties for the South included commanding coastal defenses in Virginia before being sent to Europe to oversee construction of vessels destined for the Confederate Navy.