CSA 11, 10¢ blue (4 large margins) tied by black CHARLOTTESVILE VA double-circle datestamp on small mourning cover to Mrs. Alfred L. Rives Castle Hill Cobham Depot Albemarle (County Va.) Ex Bruce E. Engstler and Renate W. Thayer. $350.

Alfred Landon Rives was born in 1830 in Paris, France, the son of William Cabell Rives, the distinguished minister to France. During the War, Alfred was acting chief engineer for the State of Virginia and later for the Confederate States, which position he held until the end of the War as a Colonel. He was one of the two Chiefs of the Corps of Engineers to General Robert E. Lee.