CSA #2-P, 10¢ blue Paterson bottom sheet margin single tied RICHMOND / Va. // SEP / 2 / 1862 cds on cover to John C. Gordon, Esqr, Bentivoglio P.O., Albemarle, Va.; tiny tear at top and flap tears; otherwise Very Fine with gorgeous stamp.  $325.  HOLD RHF

Dr. John Churchill Gordon (1831-1919) was born at “Edgeworth” Virginia and received two M.D. degrees – one from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the other from the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond. He married Mary Beall Pegram on June 4, 1861, and was appointed Asst. Surgeon a little over a week later to the 38th Va. Infantry. He resigned that November but practiced medicine in Albemarle County until 1910. The Gordons had ten children.