CSA 1, 5¢ green pen canceled on small mourning cover with matching Barksdale Va Nov 12^th 1861 manuscript postmark. The VPHS Catalog shows manuscript postmarks (and no handstamped ones) for the town of Barksdale from 1828 until July 1867; no population listed in the 1900 census. The cover is addressed to Mrs. Phoebe Baily (sic – Bailey), Scottsburg, Halifax (County), Va. Back flaps also edged in black. Click here to see the back of the cover. The family correspondence is housed at the Virginia Historical Society. Ex Renate W. Thayer. $300.