CSA 5a, 10¢ CARMINE, rich true carmine color, tied ORANGE C.H. VA. SEP 6 1863 CDS on cover to G. M. Wilkinson, Mountain Creek, Catawba County, N.C., small stamp fault at upper right and light cover stains, slightly reduced at top, 1997 PF certificate, Ex William C. Thacker, SCV $5,000. RARE SHADE! $900.

George Monroe Wilkinson (1837-1886). I found no record of him serving in the Confederate Army but his brother, William H. Wilkinson served in Co. E, NC 32nd Infantry, was wounded and captured at Gettysburg, paroled, recaptured at Spotsylvania CH Va. and died at Elmira Prison in New York in 1864.