SMUGGLED MAIL: CSA 12a, 10¢ milky blue (pre-use tear), tied by red ALEXANDRIA / LA. // FEB / 11 [1864] cds on folded letter datelined "Alexandria La. 11 Feby 1864" from George P. Evans to Col. S. F. Moseley, Jefferson Tex. The sender states "By the hands of Col. Gress of Dallas just from N.O. on parole I have recd a letter from Mr. Babcock dated 1st inst." Attached to this letter is a letter from Babcock to Moseley datelined "New Orleans Jany 8th 1864" which was smuggled out of the Union-occupied city to Alexandria La., concerning investing Confederate dollars in cotton. The February 11 letter mentions trying to find a reliable way to send money, minor mucilage stains where letters were joined together, expected splits along folds, a scarce Trans-Mississippi letter carried by courier and placed into the mails at Alexandria, ex Dr. Hubert Skinner. $1,400.

Sam. F. Moseley & Co., Attorneys at Law, General Land, Immigration and Collecting Agents, Jefferson, Texas. The Commercial Emporium of Northern and Eastern Texas and Adjacent Indian Territories, and Center of the Cotton and Grain Growing Portions of Texas [Jefferson, Texas, n.p., ca. 1866]. This is about all I could fine on Moseley but a good jumping off point for more research, if you are so inclined.