Quartermaster’s Department, Confederate States of America. (with curly bracket at right) UNLISTED IMPRINT on small (5 ¼” x 3”) envelope addressed to Mr. B. F. Richardson(?)/Mt. ? with clearly penned docketing up left side “Taken from Vicksburg July 4, 1863” which conjures up visions of a fallen soldier who did not make it home – the day Vicksburg fell. $200.

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