CSA 11, 10¢ blue (small sealed corner tear) tied neat blue COLUMBIA / S.C. // MAY / 15 cds on cover to Col. A. P. Calhoun (Fort Hill), Pendleton, So. Carolina; horizontal file fold and part of top back flap missing. Plantation Collection. $125.

Andrew Pickens Calhoun was born October 15, 1812 in Abbeville Dist SC and died March 16, 1865 at "Fort Hill," his plantation home in SC. Fort Hill is also known as John C. Calhoun Mansion and Library, Clemson University campus, Clemson. In 1835, A.P. Calhoun removed with his family and numerous slaves to Marengo County. He built a large log house, where his children were born, and named his home "Tulip Hill." A. P. Calhoun was son of John Calhoun. John C. Calhoun spent his entire career working for the U.S. government in a variety of high offices. He served as the seventh first under John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) and then under Andrew Jackson (1829-1832), but resigned the Vice Presidency to enter the U.S. Senate, where he had more power. He was an outspoken proponent of slavery and still influential during the Civil War even though he died a decade before.