CSA 12, 10¢ blue (4 large even margins) tied NEW MARKET / Va. // NOV / 8 (1864) CDS on Headquarters Middle Military Division, Official Business semi-office envelope (CSA catalog type WD-ZC-01, CV $750) with imprint crossed out to use for private correspondence, to Revd. James P. Boyce, Greenville, S.C., docketing in two different inks across left half of the cover from his brother, Ker Boyce, who was Captain/Major and Assistant Brigade Quartermaster with the 12th Georgia Battalion, Ex Harrie Mueller and  Doug Baker. $350.

James Petigru Boyce (1827-1888) was an intellectually gifted Southern Baptist pastor, theologian, author, and educator who was a chaplain for a Confederate regiment of volunteers from Greenville, a Representative to the S.C. Legislature, and aide-de-camp to the governor of South Carolina. Boyce was founder (1859) and first president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The seminary was forced to close during the war but he restarted it after the war. His legacy lives on to this day through the seminary he devoted his life to establishing and preserving. Major Ker Boyce (1833-1891) was Assistant Brigade Quartermaster with the 12th Georgia Battalion (Evans Brigade, Army Northern Virginia), and brother to Rev. James P. Boyce. He was a wealthy and successful Charleston merchant before the war. After the war, he was postmaster of Augusta, Ga. Their father’s name was also Ker.