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To a Remarkable Town in Virginia.

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To a Remarkable Town in Virginia.
Confederate #11, ever so slightly greenish blue. Groundwood adversity cover, addressed in light pencil to "Mrs. Nannie G. 'Charles] Figgat, Fincastle, Va. / Via Lynchburg." Her husband, banker Charles, is almost certainly the eponymous enlistee in the celebrated 1st Va. Cavalry - commanded by J.E.B. Stuart - and detailed as a clerk to the headquarters of Stonewall Jackson and Jubal Early. Postwar Cashier of the Bank of Lexington, Figgat absconded with funds in 1870. In all, at least twelve members of the Figgat(t) family served in the Confederacy. Two pen cancel lines in topaz-brown ink. Four ample margins, but fragment lacking at lower right, just affecting corner design. Three lines in contemporary pencil on verso, but very light, requiring close scrutiny; cover browned, much worn, waterstained on verso, wrinkled but nearly complete flap, and overall fair but collectible. "Fincastle was something of the last outpost before the Western frontier, serving as a supply station for settlers heading West. From its inception until the Revolutionary War, Fincastle oversaw a massive governmental district that stretched to the Mississippi River and included parts of modern-day Wisconsin...Fincastle's courthouse was designed by Thomas Jefferson and today...contains a vast archive...George Washington, Patrick Henry, Jefferson and other prominent Virginians either appeared in Fincastle or sent their agents to lay claim to tracts of wilderness lands. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark departed from Fincastle when they were commissioned by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase..."--wikipedia. A survivor.