CSA 3, 2¢ green tied RICHMOND VA. DEC 26 1862 circular datestamp with month inverted on neat cover to Lewis D. Crenshaw Esq. Richmond. SCV $3,500. $2,500.

Lewis Dabney Crenshaw (1817-1875) was the eldest child of Spotswood Dabney Crenshaw and Winifred Graves. Married Ann Abigail Bosher daughter of James Bosher and Anne Hopkins on November 26, 1840. Buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond. The White House of the Confederacy was the official residence of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America. It was also called “The Gray House” because of its color. The White House was in a neighborhood considered socially and politically prominent at that time, and provided a beautiful view of the city and surrounding countryside. The mansion was built in 1818 for the family of Dr. John C. Brockenbrough, the second president of the Bank of Virginia. In 1857, the house served as the home of the family of a local mill owner (Haxall-Crenshaw Mills) Lewis D. Crenshaw. Crenshaw renovated and decorated the house in the way that it appeared when the Davis family moved in in 1861. He sold the house to the city when war erupted, and the city leased it the Confederate government for use as the executive mansion.