New Orleans La., pair of 5¢ brown on white #62X3 tied by indistinct strike of June New Orleans cds on cover to "Hon. Howell Cobb, Athens Ga.", slightly reduced at left, one of the most popular addressees among Confederate collectors. 

CSA Maj. Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868) was an illustrious U.S. and Confederate politician, a representative from Georgia, Speaker of the House of Representatives; Governor of Georgia 1851-1853; Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President Buchanan; chairman of the convention of delegates from the seceded States which assembled in Montgomery, Ala., on February 24, 1861 to form a Confederate Government; appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate Army February 13, 1862, and promoted to major general September 9, 1863.