CSA #2-P, 10¢ blue Paterson with 4 large margins all around (light pre-use corner crease at UR), tied RICHMOND / Va. cds on homemade cover to Dr. John C. Gordon, Bentivoglio, Albemarle Co., Virginia; small flap tears, Fine  [VA] $150.

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.