SOUTHERN EXPRESS CO. / MACON / GA. // OCT / 11 bold double circle (CSA catalog type C, CCV $2,500) to Miss Helen Barnwell, Care Capt. Geo. P. Elliott, Grahamville, S.C.  Manuscript “Paid $1.00.” and “Va $100” indicating a money letter which was exempt from CSA postage. Reduced slightly at top, sealed tear at left, top back flap missing. Ex Brown collection. $1,200.

George P. Elliott had service in Confederate General & Staff. In the Southern Historical Society Papers, there is note of Captain George P. Elliot, commissary of the post at Grahamville who, as soon as the presence of the enemy became known, appealed to the citizens, old and young, to organize a company and go to the breastworks, mostly armed with double-barrel guns loaded with buckshot. George P. Elliot is noted as being a commander of the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery (Stuart’s Battery). There is also mention of the owner of Prince Williams Parish Plantation, commonly called Yamassese, who reported that on 26 September 1862, 69 of his negroes ran away and “went over into the possession of the public enemy.” Whether these are all the same person or different people of the same name, I am unsure.

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