CSA 6, 5¢ light blue pair, tied by two strikes of "Southern Express Co. / Lynchburg / Va. / ? 16" double-circle datestamp on small commercially made cover to James P. Hawkins, Charlottesville Va. Hawkins was the Southern Express Co. agent at Charlottesville and endorsed "Kindness of Ex Messenger" indicating no express fee was charged; slightly reduced at right, Very Fine and RARE EXAMPLE OF THIS CONFEDERATE EXPRESS COMPANY MARKING FROM LYNCHBURG, ex Laurence and Sam Williams of Lynchburg, signed Bartels 1925, Molesworth signed this in 1967 saying the only one from Lynchburg he’d ever seen, with 1975 CSA certificate, CSA Catalog value $2,500. $2,000.

James P. Hawkins worked as a messenger for Southern Express from at least 1862 to May 1865. General Orders No. 77, dated October 22, 1862, exempted Southern Express employees from conscription. He worked as an agent on the Virginia Central and the Orange & Alexandria railroads and wrote about his wartime work. His diaries are housed in Navarro College's Pearce Civil War Collection. Hawkins’ wartime express activity is available on historynet.com from a reprint of an article by Julie Holcomb in the May 2003 issue of America's Civil War.