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of Dura, Georgia bold black “PAID 10” in oval handstamp and matching "Plains of Dura, Ga, Oct 16" (1861) on an outstanding red and blue 11-Star “Bartow” Confederate Flag patriotic stampless cover, addressed to “Rev. J. E. Rylander, Monterey, Va.,
12th Georgia Regiment in command of Col. Johnson, Capt. W. Hawkins Co. called Makalee Guards.”
A scarce Sumter County, Georgia patriotic usage showing the distinctive Plains of Dura handstamps on an early-war 10c rated cover addressed to the 12th Georgia Infantry in western Virginia. The year-date is confirmed by the military address - John
Emory Rylander, then serving as 1st Sergeant of Company A (“Makalee Guards”) of the 12th Georgia, was transferred from the 12th Regiment to the 10th Georgia Battalion in May 1862, placing this usage firmly in 1861.
The addressee, Rylander, a Methodist minister from a prominent local family, had been stationed with his unit at Camp Alleghany, where mail was routed through the Monterey, Virginia post office. He would later be promoted to Major in 1862 before
being killed at Cold Harbor in June 1864. His father, Matthew Rylander, also a Methodist minister, founded the Rylander Methodist Church in Plains of Dura - a congregation and community that would later become part of the hometown landscape of U.S.
President Jimmy Carter.
The patriotic design is a tribute to Francis S. Bartow, the celebrated Georgia politician and militia captain killed at First Manassas, whose dying exhortation - “I go to illustrate Georgia” - became one of the most iconic rallying cries of the
Confederacy.
A very fine and historically rich Georgia patriotic from a small Deep South post office, combining a bold strike of the Plains of Dura handstamps, a desirable Bartow flag design, and a direct connection to early-war Virginia operations of the 12th
Georgia Infantry.
Plains of Dura, Georgia bold black “PAID 10” in oval handstamp and matching "Plains of Dura, Ga, Oct 16" (1861) on an outstanding red and blue 11-Star “Bartow” Confederate Flag patriotic stampless cover, addressed to “Rev. J. E. Rylander, Monterey,
Va., 12th Georgia Regiment in command of Col. Johnson, Capt. W. Hawkins Co. called Makalee Guards.”
A scarce Sumter County, Georgia patriotic usage showing the distinctive Plains of Dura handstamps on an early-war 10c rated cover addressed to the 12th Georgia Infantry in western Virginia. The year-date is confirmed by the military address - John
Emory Rylander, then serving as 1st Sergeant of Company A (“Makalee Guards”) of the 12th Georgia, was transferred from the 12th Regiment to the 10th Georgia Battalion in May 1862, placing this usage firmly in 1861.
The addressee, Rylander, a Methodist minister from a prominent local family, had been stationed with his unit at Camp Alleghany, where mail was routed through the Monterey, Virginia post office. He would later be promoted to Major in 1862 before
being killed at Cold Harbor in June 1864. His father, Matthew Rylander, also a Methodist minister, founded the Rylander Methodist Church in Plains of Dura - a congregation and community that would later become part of the hometown landscape of U.S.
President Jimmy Carter.
The patriotic design is a tribute to Francis S. Bartow, the celebrated Georgia politician and militia captain killed at First Manassas, whose dying exhortation - “I go to illustrate Georgia” - became one of the most iconic rallying cries of the
Confederacy.
A very fine and historically rich Georgia patriotic from a small Deep South post office, combining a bold strike of the Plains of Dura handstamps, a desirable Bartow flag design, and a direct connection to early-war Virginia operations of the 12th
Georgia Infantry.
Plains of Dura, Georgia bold black “PAID 10” in oval handstamp and matching "Plains of Dura, Ga, Oct 16" (1861) on an outstanding red and blue 11-Star “Bartow” Confederate Flag patriotic stampless cover, addressed to “Rev. J. E. Rylander, Monterey,
Va., 12th Georgia Regiment in command of Col. Johnson, Capt. W. Hawkins Co. called Makalee Guards.”
A scarce Sumter County, Georgia patriotic usage showing the distinctive Plains of Dura handstamps on an early-war 10c rated cover addressed to the 12th Georgia Infantry in western Virginia. The year-date is confirmed by the military address - John
Emory Rylander, then serving as 1st Sergeant of Company A (“Makalee Guards”) of the 12th Georgia, was transferred from the 12th Regiment to the 10th Georgia Battalion in May 1862, placing this usage firmly in 1861.
The addressee, Rylander, a Methodist minister from a prominent local family, had been stationed with his unit at Camp Alleghany, where mail was routed through the Monterey, Virginia post office. He would later be promoted to Major in 1862 before
being killed at Cold Harbor in June 1864. His father, Matthew Rylander, also a Methodist minister, founded the Rylander Methodist Church in Plains of Dura - a congregation and community that would later become part of the hometown landscape of U.S.
President Jimmy Carter.
The patriotic design is a tribute to Francis S. Bartow, the celebrated Georgia politician and militia captain killed at First Manassas, whose dying exhortation - “I go to illustrate Georgia” - became one of the most iconic rallying cries of the
Confederacy.
A very fine and historically rich Georgia patriotic from a small Deep South post office, combining a bold strike of the Plains of Dura handstamps, a desirable Bartow flag design, and a direct connection to early-war Virginia operations of the 12th
Georgia Infantry. (Image)
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