CSA 2-P, 10¢ light blue (huge margins all around) tied GORDONSVILLE VA. SEP 19 1862 CDS on cover to Mrs. Sally Paxton TimberRidge Rockbridge Co. Virginia, a couple file folds and bit of light staining. $110.  HOLD - JA

Brigadier General Elisha Franklin Paxton (1828-1863) was a favorite of Lt. Gen. Stonewall Jackson who is buried only a few feet from him in Lexington, Va. Paxton died at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863, Jackson on May 10th.