“Hillsboro Geo / July 18 [1863] / Paid 10” all in manuscript on turned cover to Mr. W. Q. Brookes, Barnwell C House, SC; inside use franked with manuscript canceled pair CSA #7, 5¢ blue, no town name, to F. W. Holsonbeck, Esq., Hillsboro, Georgia. Original letter from D.W.H. (Holsonbeck) headed Hillsboro July 13th, 1863 to Mr. Brookes saying , “I have seen the enroling officer…he said I would be exempted he thought by going to Macon the 20 of July & reporting myself & carring a certificate from my neighborhood by paying the $5,000 dollars he ast(?) was given in the survis I told that you had ben but that you was not at this time on the account of your health I told him I that that from wat I have heard you say that you had fiter out a company your self & he said you had don that I would be exempt without the 5,000 I will go to Macon next Monday…”Much more re corn, cotton, wheat, etc. Also says, “I will send Allen as soon as I can, he appers not to want to leave me until he gets me out of the grass, he is a good ole Negro. I would like to ? such one all the time or that all was like him” Ex Northcutt [GA] $225.