1863, Chattanooga, TN straightline cancel in blue, w/3¢ rose on orange cover, reduced & opened roughly at right, to Adena, Ohio (Image)

Est. 90

1865, Nashville Ten Jan 27 cds & target cancel ties 3 rose, #65 on small cover to Danvers Plains, Mass, three page letter enclosed from 'Office of No. 1 U.S.A. Gen Hosp, Nashville, Jan 25 65', to uncle & all, explainng how tedious work on special reports of all kinds is, that hospital is mostly filled with Rebs incl two Generals, two Colonels, five Majors, Captains & Lients to make up the number Sixty-Eight. (officiers), The total number of Rebs on hand is 620...expects an exchange of prisioners...'it will relieve our own boys of the greatest misery humanity ever saw...' the writer goes on to express his feeling of disgust for the Gray coats, he is angry that treatment of the Rebs is better than treatment of our boys, etc, well written by an educated man (Image)

Est. 125