CSA 6, 5¢ light blue tied CHARLESTON S.C. JUN 13, Welch type A25, on commercially made English envelope to Louis Manigault Esq Agusta (sic) Georgia. Scarce single use with small-sized pre-war circular datestamp seldom found used during the war, although used 1862-64, Choice. Signed Brian Green. Ex David Burton. $200.

Louis Manigault (1828-99) was born in Paris, France, on November 21, 1828, while his mother and father were visiting their ancestral homeland. He descended from French Huguenots who fled La Rochelle, France, because of religious persecution with the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. The Manigault family immigrated to South Carolina where they became very prosperous in planting, trading, and merchandising. Because of the extreme wealth of the Manigault Family in Charleston, South Carolina, nearly every male member received a European education and took many tours and trips overseas. During the Civil War, Manigault served the South as a special investigator of military operations in the field as an assistant to the Surgeon General. Source: https://alphasig.org/history