CSA paid-10c 1862 - public domain postal stamp scan

Confederate hand stamped provisional cover, 1862Cover mailed after the new uniform postage rate of ten cents had gone into effect, July 1, 1862. Addressee reads: 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.