CSA 11, 10¢ blue and CSA 12, 10¢ blue tied in combination for double weight rate by blue COLUMBIA S.C. DEC 30 (1864) circular datestamp on cover to Edgar m. Lazarus Esq, Capt. J.R. Mordecai, James Island, South Carolina. The address is to the James Island Siege Train (Confederate Artillery defending Charleston Harbor). Cover with minor unobtrusive upper right corner repair. Ex David Burton. $225.

Captain J. Randolph Mordecai was an assistant quartermaster and the son of Moses Mordecai, a very prominent Jewish citizen and merchant of Charleston. Private Lazarus was a member of Company A, Palmetto Guards, Manigault’s South Carolina Light Artillery Battalion, often referred to as the Siege Train Artillery Battalion.