Sale No: 3043
Lot No:3092
Symbol:Cat No:1829-87

Incoming Blockade Cover addressed to "Miss N.P. Barron/ Capt J. Barron Hope/ Qr Mr Gen's Office/ Richmond" with "Wilmington N.C./ 5 Paid/ Dec 8" cds and ms "Due 12", back side with the notation "Forwarded by your friend Wm. B. Reed, Richmond Post Office/ I hope you are well", restored upper left corner, Very Fine appearancernJames Barron Hope (1829-87) was a US, and later Confederate naval officer, acting as a representative in Europe for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Born into a very patriotic family, Mr. Hope-+s great-grandfather, the elder James Barron, organized the Virginia Colonial Navy, of which he was commander-in-chief during the Revolutionary War. When Virginia seceded from the union in 1861, Mr. Hope served as the acting quartermaster in Smith-+s Battery of Artillery and also with the Confederate War Department. He obtained the rank of Captain and was paroled at the capitulation of Johnston-+s Army in 1865 at Greensboro, NC. (Image)

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