BRISTOE STATION VA AUG  24 (1861) cds with matching manuscript “Paid 5” on cover to Mrs. Mary B. Gordon, Care of E. S. Pegram, Esq., Cobham Depot, Albemarle, Va. Ex John Vagnetti. $175.

Dr. John Churchill Gordon (1831-1919) was born at “Edgeworth” Virginia and received two M.D. degrees – one from University of Virginia, Charlottesville and the other from Medical College of Virginia, Richmond. He married Mary Beall Pegram June 4, 1861, and was appointed Asst. Surgeon a little over a week later to the 38th Va. Infantry. He resigned in November the same year, but practiced medical in Albemarle County until 1910. The Gordons had ten children.