CSA 4b, 5¢ milky blue (4 margins) tied MACON GA JUN 12 (1862) double-circle datestamp on homemade TURNED COVER to A.A. Adams, Americus Georgia; inside use CSA 1, 5¢ bright green tied CDS of AMERICUS Ga. JUN 7, to Col. Wm. A. Wilson, Madison, Ga.; open 3 sides to display. Particularly nice use of both lithographed issues. $550.

Adams, A. A. (Asbury Arnold), 1828-1889, Captain. During the Civil War, Adams served in the Home Guard of Americus. Adams was a delegate of the Agricultural Society of Sumter County to the 1877 Agricultural Convention at Milledgeville. He was a cotton factor after the war. Over the years, Adams and his family occupy several grand homes in Americus