CSA 3, 2¢ green (4 margins) tied RICHMOND VA. OCT 11 1862 CDS on legal-size cover to Surgeon J R Raine or Surg Attending 45th N.C. Regt. Drewry’s Bluff Richmond (Va.), reduced slightly at top and left, 2007 APS certificate stating “much of (top) flap gone.” SCV $3,500. Ex Sam Zimmerman and David Burton. LL  $1,300.

Dr. John R. Raine (1837-1892) received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. in 1857.  Click here to see the various military medical entries from NARA detailed on FindAGrave.  After the war, he practiced medicine in Wentworth, N.C. and married Lucy Lee Hancock.