CSA 3, 2¢ green (part of left from of adjacent stamp showing at right) tied by RICHMOND Va. SEP 30 1862 cds on cover to Lt. R. C. Byrd, Company E 26^th Regt. Va. Vols, Chaffins Bluff, Va., Ex Steven Walske and David Burton, signed Dietz. SCV $3,500.  $2,500.

 

Richard Corbin Byrd (1837-1925): The Byrd family has a history dating to the 1600s. The wife of Capt. Byrd was Ann Gordon Marshall, a descendant of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States. Capt. Byrd was part of the Army of Northern Virginia; Byrd had a significant military career rising from private to full colonel. He fought in the trenches of Petersburg and commanded a small group who surrendered at Appomattox.