5c Blue, Local (7). Vertical pair, tied by "Gordonville Va. Jun. 29" circular datestamp on homemade cover written in the hand of Brigadier General Montgomery Dent Corse to his wife in Taylorsville Va., small toned spot in margin between stamps, still Very Fine, General Corse commanded the 17th Virginia Infantry and then Corse's Brigade of Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, Corse saw action in many engagements and according to Wikipedia he "was captured at the Battle of Sayler's Creek on April 6, 1865. After his surrender, General Corse was conveyed to Fort Warren near Boston, Massachusetts, on the day that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and he and the fourteen generals accompanying him narrowly escaped the violence of a mob at a town in Pennsylvania on the next morning. They were only saved by the determination of their small guard of Union soldiers and officers"

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