BRISTOE STATION VA. SEP  4 (1861) cds with ms. Paid 5 on FORWARDED COVER to Mrs. Mary B. Gordon, Care of James B. Gordon, Esq., Bentivoglio PO, Albemarle Va., which has been crossed out and redirected to Cobham, manuscript “Forwarded Paid 5 Bentivoglio Sept 5th.”  Ex Vagnetti.  $300.

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.