Items for Sale - CSA 2, 10¢ Blue Lithograph on Cover - Item#17175
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Item# 17175

CSA 2-Y, 10¢ light milky blue, Stone Y with huge margins all around including part of adjacent stamp at bottom, tied bold perfectly struck RICHMOND / Va. // OCT / 24 / 1862 cds on legal cover to “Surg[eon] A. Holmes, Poplar Lawn Hospital, Petersburg, Va. with manuscript “Official Business” at upper right, small sealed tear at top edge not near stamp. $350.

Poplar Lawn is now known as Central Park. Petersburg Volunteers camped there in October 1812, before leaving for the Canadian border. Lafayette was greeted there with music and speeches in 1824. It was bought by the city in 1844. Volunteer companies enlisted there, April 19, 1861, and one of seven Petersburg hospitals stood there 1863-1865. It was used as a hospital for both black and white.

Allmond Holmes enlisted as Chief Surgeon and was commissioned into Field and Staff NC 26th Infantry, Pettigrew’s Brigade, on 10-23-62. He served at Poplar Lawn Hospital, Petersburg. Like his father, Allmond Holmes was a large landowner. The 1860 census shows him with over 500 acres producing 1,500 bushels of corn, 800 bushels of rice, 800 pounds of cotton, and 71 tons of hay. Holmes owned 57 slaves in 1860. He was from Clinton, NC.

Price: $350