RICHMOND VA. APR 2 1863 circular datestamp (Powell type 6d) with matching DUE 10 (type Q) on cover to Mrs. L.C. Moore, Care Col. Wm. F. Martin, Oxford, North Carolina with mandated soldier’s endorsement From L.C. Moore Capt. Com. 48thMiss Rgt. (Army of Northern Virginia), light water staining. This is the date of the infamous Richmond Bread Riot that resulted in heavy destruction of private property in that city. More than sixty men and women were arrested and tried. Ex Daniel M. Telep and Harry Muldrow. $110.

Capt. L.C. Moore: I initially had trouble finding information online about Moore, with AI insisting there was no such person. But the cover is unmistakably written as L.C. Moore 48th Mississippi, as primary a source as you can get. Click to see what I finally found on “Mississippians in the Confederate Army”  :…at the opening of this campaign, the Brigade of Gen. Harris, consisted of about 1200 muskets. The regiments were, the 12th, Col. M.B. Harris; the 16th, Col. Sam’l. E. Baker, the 19th, Col. Thos. J. Hardin, and the 48th, Lt. Col. T.B. Manlove. (Col. Jayne being absent on leave)… Lt. Col. Manlove was wounded in the Wilderness, and the 48th was commanded successively by Capt. J.P. Rogers and Capt. L.C. Moore, until Col. J.M. Jayne, who was on leave of absence, returned, which was early in the campaign.