CSA 12-ADa, 10¢ milky blue (also called OPALINE by old time students) right sheet margin, close at left, tied WELDON / JUN / 23 (?) / 1863 cds on homemade cover to Mrs. L. L. Whitaker, Camden, So Ca, with soldier’s letter from son to mother dated June 4th/63 (while same correspondence, letter may not originate with this cover) Camp near Franklin signed T. H. Whitaker saying that he just returned from Weldon (train station) but did not succeed in getting the box, that the agent said he received the bill for it two days before but the box had not arrived. And, “I have to close now as orders have come to be ready with two days’ rations, to march I suppose. The Gunboats are coming up the river again.” There is a Thomas H. Whitaker who was a Sergeant in Co. C, Georgia Terrell Light Artillery and a private T. H. Whitaker in CS Forrest Escort Corps. More research needed. Plantation Collection. $200.