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VERY FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE USE OF THE "SONS OF ERIN" PATRIOTIC DESIGN ON A COVER TO FRANCE.
Col. Michael (later General) Corcoran, depicted on the left of this cover, was a celebrated Irish American Union officer and confidant of President Lincoln who was captured at First Bull Run. He was one of the Union prisoners selected for execution in the "Enchantress Affair" before he was eventually exchanged. He died in 1863 when he was thrown from his horse. His name figured prominently in many Irish Union ballads and on several Patriotic covers, including this design with Cols. Mulligan and Meacher.
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