CSA 7-R, 5¢ blue pair used with pen squiggles and matching Gary’s Store Va Dec 12 manuscript postmark on adversity cover to Thomas J. Wright, Richmond, Virginia, care of Capt. Lewis J. Bossieux, fashioned from fancy printed ledger sheet with tape-sealed tear under turned-back flap at top. Ex Renate Thayer. $90.

Lewis J. Bossieux led Company Q ,1st Regiment, Virginia Troops (Richmond Grays).
Thomas J. Wright mustered into Co. B, Virginia 16th Infantry. He was killed July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg