PETERSBURG Va. JUL 19 blue CDS with matching (DUE) 10 on soldier’s cover addressed to Mrs. Clifford Anderson (Care of Mr. C.B. Stone) Macon Georgia with mandated endorsement of From Clifford Anderson 2nd Lieut Co. C 2nd Georgia Battalion. Anderson’s is a scarce Georgia autograph. $150.

Clifford Anderson (1833-1899) was born in Virginia and orphaned at age 12. At 16, he moved to Georgia to work in his brother's law office. In his spare time, he read extensively and gained a broad classical education, all without the help of a teacher. In 1850, he began studying law under Robert S. Lanier, father of noted poet Sidney Lanier. Robert was so taken with his young mentee that he named his second son Clifford Anderson Lanier. While young Clifford studied law, he took an interest in politics and state affairs and was elected as a Whig to the Georgia State House of Representatives in 1859. When the war broke out, Clifford enlisted as a private but was soon elected Lieutenant in the Floyd Rifles and then promoted to brigade inspector on the staff of Brigadier General Marcus Wright. After the Gettysburg campaign, Clifford resigned from the army in order to make a run for the Confederate Congress. In October 1863, he unseated the incumbent. Anderson was one of the youngest members of the Second Confederate Congress. After the war, he resumed his law practice in Macon and served multiple terms as Georgia's attorney general. When Mercer University moved to Macon, Anderson joined its law school faculty. C.B. Stone was a Macon merchant who sold military caps of various styles.