SAVANNAH GA  JAN 16 cds with matching PAID 10 in oval on small cover addressed to Mrs. W[illiam] C[abell] Rives, Castle Hill, Cobham, Albemarle Co., Virginia; COBHAM Va. cds (ms. Jun 23 date) with matching handstamped PAID and manuscript “5” forward the cover to Richmond (10¢ Savannah to Cobham and 5¢ to forward from Cobham to Richmond). Wonderful FORWARDED cover. Cobham was an Albemarle County stop on the Virginia Central Railroad; Ex Thacker. $500.

William Cabell Rives (1793 - 1868) was a U.S Representative and a Senator from Virginia almost continuously from 1832 until the War; attended Hampden-Sydney College and graduated from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. in 1809; studied law; admitted to the bar about 1814 and commenced practice in Charlottesville, Albemarle County; moved to “Castle Hill,” Albemarle County in 1821 where he is buried; Minister to France 1829-1832 and again 1849-53; delegate in 1861 from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress in Montgomery, Ala., and Richmond, Va., member of the House of Representatives from Virginia in the Second Confederate Congress.