red and blue patriotic design with hand holding 11-star flag, franked with horizontal left margin pair of 1861 5c Green (1) tied by bold "Tudor Hall Va. Feb 24 1862" datestamp, addressed to Griffin, Georgia, very fine and fresh, a gem

Francis S. Bartow was a two-term member of the United States House of Representatives prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, after which point he became an inaugurating member of the Confederate Provisional Congress. It was in Savannah on May 21, 1861 that he delivered his most famous phrase, "I go to illustrate Georgia", to a group of soldiers assembled to travel to the frontlines in Virginia. Bartow would be killed at the First Battle of Bull Run.