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VERY FINE. A RARE ELONGATED VERSION OF THE 7-STAR CONFEDERATE FLAG WITH MILITARY ADDRESS AND ORIGINAL LETTER.
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FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE USE FROM CONFEDERATE GEORGIA ON MAY 2, 1861, WITH AN EIGHTH STAR ADDED TO REPRESENT VIRGINIA, WHICH VOTED TO SECEDE ON APRIL 17 AND FORMALLY JOINED THE CONFEDERACY ON MAY 7.
The C.S.A. Catalog lists the cloth-pattern flag as F7-3, but without the flagstaff. This design is a hybrid of F7-2B (with flagstaff) and F7-3 (cloth pattern). (Image)
VERY FINE APPEARANCE. THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THIS REMARKABLE PATRIOTIC DESIGN CREATED FOR THE ATLANTA MEDICAL COLLEGE. ENHANCING ITS UNIQUE STATUS IS THE USE OF THE 10-CENT ATLANTA POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL HANDSTAMP.
According to the Emory University website, the Georgia State Assembly granted a charter for Atlanta Medical College in 1854, and classes started the following year. The first building was erected in 1859 on the site now occupied by Grady Memorial Hospital. Following a series of mergers, in 1915 the school became Emory University School of Medicine.
The sender of this cover (Thomas S. Powell, according to the docketing) was hired in 1857 as professor of obstetrics and he soon criticized some of the business practices of the newly-founded school. He was instrumental in obtaining $5,000 in donations from the city in 1866, but was released from the faculty soon after when he complained that none of the funds were earmarked for charity. He went on to found Southern Medical College in Atlanta, which eventually merged with Atlanta Medical College.
This cover is the basis of the illustration in the C.S.A. Catalog (page 450). (Image)