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Confederate handstamp Paid 10
July 17, 1862
Confederate handstamp Paid 10 on the cover with Richmond, Virginia, July 17, 1862, circular date stamp, on an envelope addressed to Cobham, Virginia, and mailed after the new uniform postage rate of ten cents had gone into effect, July 1, 1862. The addressee is William Cabell Rives, who was at that time a member of the Confederate Congress. Rives had also served in the United States Senate and House of Representatives and as Ambassador to France.
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