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. [VA] $325.

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