20c Green (13). Horizontal pair, slightly irregular but mostly large margins except just touching at right, right stamp with pre-use vertical crease ending in a tear, tied by small "Shreveport La. Jul. 6, 1864" double-circle datestamp on 40c Trans-Mississippi Express buff cover to Sumpter, Tex., manuscript docketing at top "J.B. Sexton MC" and "politeness of Col Sexton" below, cover with trivial edge tears including one sealed at top

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. AN EXTREMELY RARE EAST-TO-WEST TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPRESS COVER, BEARING A PAIR OF THE 20-CENT GENERAL ISSUE.

No more than twenty covers with a pair of the 20c Green paying the 40c Trans-Mississippi Express rate are known. A majority of the known covers are heavily stained and damaged. It is believed that this particular cover was hand carried from Richmond to Shreveport where it was placed in the mails - possibly by Franklin Sexton. Sexton was a wealthy Texas planter and lawyer who represented Texas 4th District in the Confederate Congress.

Illustrated in Krieger book (No. E27). With 1982 C.S.A. certificate.

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