1861, Civil War Letter & Cover. 3¢ red #26 tied by grid cancel on cover to Plainfield, N.H. with red New Haven cds; contents of letter from son to mother describing big Union concert at Music Hall & New Haven Brass Band; talks of rigid military discipline, train loads of large cannon, 25,000 stands of arms, 50,000 cartridges, 4 car loads of powder and shot and shell, 30 carloads of muskets, etc., and how the Legislature appropriated two million dollars in order to place the state on a war footing; unusually newsy letter (no photo). Estimate  $100 - 150. $0