CSA 4, 5¢ blue pair (said by prior owner to be Stone 3 but not plated nor verified by me) used on fresh pink-lined cover with Millers (Tavern) Va. Sepr 26, 1862, manuscript postmark to Dr. Geo. W. Bagby, Edt S.S. Messenger, Richmond (Va.). The population of Miller’s Tavern was 78 in the 1900 census.  Ex Jim and Renate Thayer. $150. 

George William Bagby (1828-1883) was a (largely non-practicing) licensed physician, editor, journalist, essayist, and humorist. He is best remembered as the editor who, on the advent of the Civil war, turned the Southern Literary Messenger from a respected literary journal into a propagandistic tool that endorsed secession and the Confederate cause.