CSA 11, 10¢ blue canceled pen with matching manuscript Millers Tav(ern Va.) Nov 20/63 on mourning cover with wonderful military address to Joseph McMurran, Sergeant Major 4th Va. Infantry “Stonewall Brigade” Gen. Edward Johnson’s Division, Ewell’s Corps. Click here to see the back of the cover. The population of Miller’s Tavern was 78 in the 1900 census. Ex Renate W. Thayer. $550.

Sgt. Maj. Joseph McMurran served in Company G, 4th Virginia Infantry, the renowned "Stonewall Brigade" fighting in battles at Wilderness, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Bethesda Church, Monocacy Junction, Snicker's Ferry , Kernstown, Newton, Winchester and Gettysburg where he was wounded on July 3,1863 and at Winchester on August 7, 1864, captured at Kernstown. Educated at Delaware College and Union College in New York, received his degree from Hampden-Syndey in 1852. Taught school in Alabama and Virginia before the war; after the war he taught a year in South Carolina, and ran a drug store in Shepherdstown, WV.