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Confederate States continued...

Especially Unusual & Exotic Uses
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
655 cover   imageSherman's Invasion of Georgia - Letter Mailed at the Outset, cover franked with a 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by an Athens, Ga. c.d.s., May 28 (1864), to Griffin, Ga., about 40 miles south of Atlanta; included is the original letter from an Alice Baldie, datelined "Hermitage, Near Athens, May 26th, 1864"; in the letter to her "Momma", she writes, "Now that the Yankees are so near…I am scared all the time". The letter, mostly about paying hers and her mother's taxes - City, State & War - also suggests that her mother pack up her "most valuable things to send to Willie at a moments warning.", Very Fine. An important piece of history relating to the fears of the populace at the beginning of Sherman's infamous March Through Georgia.


Union forces, under General William T. Sherman, had invaded the Atlanta area on May 7, 1864, only a short time before this letter was written. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction
656 cover   imageConfederate Ironclad, C.S.S. Virginia, formerly U.S.S. Merrimack, Semi-Official cover from the "C.S. Central Laboratory (Ordn.), Macon, Ga., Official Business" (C.S.A. WD-OD-20) addressed to Commander Catesby Ap. R. Jones, Commanding C.S. Naval Foundry, Selma, Ala.; franked with a 10¢ green type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a partial Macon c.d.s. and docketed on the reverse "Major Mallet - Nov. 4th/63, Ans - Nov 10th/63", Very Fine.


Confederate Navy Lieutenant Catesby Ap R. Jones was employed in converting the steam frigate, the Union's recently scuttled U.S.S. Merrimack, into a Confederate ironclad. He was the ship's Executive Officer when she was commissioned as C.S.S. Virginia. When her Commanding Officer, Captain Franklin Buchanan, was wounded in the Virginia's March 8, 1862 attack on the U.S.S. Cumberland and U.S.S. Congress, Jones temporarily took command, leading the ship during her historic engagement with the U.S.S. Monitor on the following day. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $2,500-3,500
SOLD for $2,100.00
Will close during Public Auction
657 cover   imageConfederate Submarine, C.S.S. Hunley, cover from a Hunley Engineering Staff Officer, Lt. Duncan Green Campbell, to his wife in Eagle Hill, Va., the day after the sinking; pencil docketing on the face of the cover, "October 16th 1863", indicates date of mailing; penciled in the same hand on the reverse is the note, "A torpedo boat upset & 8 of the crew drowned." Franked with a 10¢ greenish blue type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a mostly clear Charleston S.C. c.d.s., Oct 17, 1863; triangular piece at the top in the docketing repaired, reduced slightly at the right, Fine. The only recorded usage related to the sinking of C.S.S. Hunley.


C.S.S. H.L. Hunley was the first submarine anywhere in the world to sink a ship in wartime. The Hunley herself actually sank on three different occasions. This one, October 15, 1863, was the second. It was just a training run, but the inventor and namesake, Horace Lawson Hunley, died along with his crew. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $2,600.00
Will close during Public Auction
658 cover   imageCover forwarded to CSA Vice President Alexander Stevens, cover from Kingston, Ga. to Stevens in Richmond and forwarded to him in Crawfordsville, Ga., where he resided for most of the war; franked with a three-margin 10¢ milky blue type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a Kingston c.d.s., Jul 25 (1863), handstamped boxed "FORWARDED/10" (type Z) with Aug 29 Richmond c.d.s.'s and marked "Crawforsville, Geo."; in the back Stephens has written that the cover enclosed a letter from a woman requesting that it be forwarded to her husband, a private citizen imprisoned at Fort Warren for ‘endeavoring to run the blockade’". Stephens concludes, "answered"; repaired tears at the bottom and missing the bottom flap, Fine. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $250-350
SOLD for $170.00
Will close during Public Auction
659 cover   imageCover from President Jefferson Davis, Addressed in His Own Hand, legal size Executive Department Official Business envelope (ED-06) addressed by Davis to Mrs. G.N. Sanders in Richmond; franked with a 10¢ milky blue type I (Archer & Daly) tied by an incomplete Richmond c.d.s.; multiple docketing includes "Col. Wood" (John Taylor Wood, Naval aide to Pres. Davis, who simultaneously held the ranks of Naval Commander and Cavalry Colonel); "Col. Withers" (Lt. Col. John Withers, Davis' Asst. Adjutant General; and "W. Pres. Johnston" (William Preston Johnston, Davis' aide-de-camp); the cover is reduced slightly at the left, Fine to Very Fine, Ex-Hart, Green, Jackson, signed B. Green, P. Kaufmann.


Mrs. G.N. Sanders was Anna Reid Sanders, wife of George N. Sanders, a Confederate agent in Montreal, Canada, and whose contacts with John Wilkes Booth made him a wanted suspect in the Abraham Lincoln Assassination—with a $25,000 reward. He was also involved in the famed Confederate raid on St. Albans, Vermont, and was known to have met with John Wilkes Booth prior to the latter's assassination of Lincoln.

President Davis was writing to Mrs. Sanders on the occasion of the death of her son, Major Reid Sanders, in a Union P.O.W. prison in September 1864. Only a month before, she had written to Davis imploring him to exchange her son, but she was notified by C.S.A. Secretary of War, James Seddon, that an exchange was not possible. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $1,400.00
Will close during Public Auction
660 cover   imageCover to Brother of General John Hunt Morgan, "Thunderbolt of the Confederacy", homemade cover addressed to "Frank Key Morgan, Care of Genl. B.W. Duke, Carters Station, E. Tenn.", franked with a 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a mostly clear Abingdon, Va. c.d.s., Sep 27 (1864), exceptionally clean and Very Fine, signed P. Kaufmann.


General John Hunt Morgan was legendary for his raids into Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio by which he would not only disrupt enemy communications by tapping into Union telegraph lines, but also round up fresh troops and supplies. On September 4, 1864, he was surprised by a Union raid at Greeneville, Tenn. and, while attempting to retreat, was shot and killed.

This cover, postmarked only a short time after his funeral, is to Morgan's brother and close confidant from his recently-bereaved family in Abingdon, Va. Sgt. Frank Morgan was then serving in his recently-deceased brother's famous guerrilla unit which had been placed under the command of General Basil Duke only days before. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $650.00
Will close during Public Auction
661 cover   imageLetter to Slave Trader, E.H. Stokes, folded letter franked with a pen-canceled 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) and postmarked manuscript "J.' Ordy. [Jennings' Ordinary, Va.], June 5/63". In the letter to Stokes, the largest slave dealer in Richmond, a Mr. T.A. Frottle expresses his displeasure that Stokes had sold a consigned slave for less than the Frottle had directed, "I see you have sold Tilman at $2600, I wrote you positively not to take less than $2800 nett cash & I am surprised at your selling him…he had been in the habit of running away, I thought it best to sell him."; soiling around stamp, Fine. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction
662 cover   imageIncoming Cover from England to Richmond via Bermuda & Charleston, S.C., incoming cover, carried on the Blockade Runner Minnie, to G.A. Myers in Richmond; forwarded by Norman S. Walker, C.S.A. agent in Bermuda; endorsed "Ap[proved] Walker" at the lower left and franked on arrival in Charleston with a large-margined 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a Charleston c.d.s., Mar 29 (1864); reduced slightly at the right, stamp with a faint pre-use crease, otherwise Very Fine and very rare. One of only three recorded covers forwarded personally by Walker, signed B. Green, P. Kaufmann.


Originally a Virginia plantation owner, Walker left active service after being appointed C.S.A. Military Agent in Bermuda by President Jefferson Davis. From the time of his arrival in Bermuda, late in 1862, Major Walker played a key role for the Confederacy, coordinating delivery of armaments and military supplies to the South and cotton to England. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $2,000-3,000
SOLD for $1,300.00
Will close during Public Auction
663 cover   imageRedirected Twice Without Additional Postage, cover franked with a 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a blue Oct 27 Columbia, S.C. c.d.s., to Grahamville, S.C.; redirected to Gadsden, S.C. without the required "Due 10" marking; then, with manuscript "Gadsden Nov 4" postmark and "X" cancel, the cover was redirected back to Grahamville, again with no additional postage charged, Fine to Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $150-200
SOLD for $130.00
Will close during Public Auction
664 cover   imageFlag of Truce Mail - Via Charleston, S.C., small civilian cover endorsed Flag Truce and franked with a 10¢ milky blue type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a partial Charleston S.C. c.d.s., Dec 5 (1864) to Loyds [Lloyd's] Post Office, Va., Very Fine.


As Union forces began to occupy more areas in the South, cities such as Charleston were employed as exchange points for mails crossing the lines. This cover would have been franked and mailed unsealed inside a larger envelope addressed to the commanding officer at Union-occupied Charleston. His office would have removed the inner envelope, inspected the letter, then sealed it and placed it into the mails at Charleston for dispatch to Virginia. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $250-350
SOLD for $190.00
Will close during Public Auction
665 cover   imageCushing's Private Trans-Mississippi Express Mail, cover addressed to Louisburg, N.C. and hand-carried from the Houston, Tex. area; franked with a 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) and bearing most of a type C Cushing's Express label (torn apart in opening) on the reverse; the cover was placed into the mails at Fort Mott, S.C. with manuscript postmark "Fort Mott, July 24" and "X" cancel on the stamp; minor stain at the lower left, Very Fine and rare, signed P. Kaufmann, with 1977 C.S.A. & 1978 P.F. certificates.


E.H. Cushing, editor of the Houston Daily Telegraph, began a private Trans-Mississippi mail carrying service designed to bring news from east of the Mississippi and to facilitate written communications with Texas troops serving in the East. The label reads, in part, "Persons coming this way are particularly requested to bring as many copies of Southern newspapers as they can." . (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

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Estimate $2,000-3,000
SOLD for $1,400.00
Will close during Public Auction
666 cover   imageLouisiana Relief Committee - Smuggled Mail, small cover franked with a 10¢ type II (Keatinge & Ball) tied by an incomplete Mobile, Ala. double-circle datestamp, addressed to "Ernest Landry, Beauregard La Battery, S C Siege Train, Charleston, S.C., Care of C.D. Bardot"; at Charleston the cover was redirected with penciled notation to "Capt. Bridger, Green Pond" S.C. and a three-margin 1861 10¢ Paterson (2) was added for forwarding postage and tied by a May 27 Charleston c.d.s.; docketed "9 May No. 63" (possibly indicating the 63rd letter sent by the L.R.C.); sealed opening tear to the left of the right-hand stamp, Fine and rare.


Research into the recipient's (Landry) family correspondence has proved that this cover was smuggled out of Union-occupied New Orleans by the mails there. The Louisiana Relief Committee was surreptitiously founded jointly by citizens of New Orleans and Mobile to affect secret transmittal of mail to and from New Orleans after the city's fall on April 25, 1862. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $950.00
Will close during Public Auction
667 cover   imageHand-Carried by Slave Messenger, turned cover originally hand-carried "By Boy Jack" - manuscript endorsement at the lower left, customarily used whenever a slave was used as a messenger of carrier - to Columbus, Miss.; later turned and franked with a 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a Feb 5 Columbus c.d.s. to Selma, Ala.; stamp damaged, cover with left flap separated, still Fine. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction
668 cover   imageMilitary "Express" - Hand-Carried Cover, turned cover originally hand-carried to Shreveport, La.; later turned and franked with a 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) canceled straightline "PAID" and postmarked with a Jul 1 Waxahachie, Tex c.d.s.; addressed to Capt. William M. Cravens, Care of Maj. Dorn, Bonham, Tex.; the cover was then re-addressed to "Col. Walker 2nd Inf Brigade, Army in the Field, Mid[land], Texas, endorsed "Express" and hand-carried by Military messenger; stamp faulty, apparently pre-use, Fine to Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction
669 cover   imageCaptured Envelope with a Union Regimental corner card, orange cover with framed corner card "15th REGIMENT, N.Y. CAVALRY, Col. Robert M. Richardson", franked with a 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly), placed over the corner card, pen-canceled and postmarked with a very faint Waynesboro, Va. c.d.s. with a manuscript "June 25" date; addressed to Lynchburg, Va., "Care of Capt. Anderson, Enrolling Office"; included is the original letter datelined Waynesboro, in part, "[your mare] is doing well, but I am in constant fear of having her stolen. Our country is filled with Stragglers, who are stealing every horse they can. Write me at your earliest leisure & give me all the news. We are cut off from the Richmond papers.", exceptionally clean and Very Fine.


The New York 15th Cavalry, under General George A. Custer, participated in the last cavalry charge of the war. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $400-600
SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction
670 cover   imageMysterious Numeric Cypher Cover, cover franked with a 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a Jan 25 Keswick Depot, Va. c.d.s. (month/day inverted), to James M. Rawlings, Rockbridge Artillery, Hardaway's Battalion, Army of N. Va.; in manuscript at the upper right is "1. 12. 7. 9. something very much found by home folks", on the back are eight more lines of numeric cypher, partly decoded with such words as "caisson", "canteen", and "pirates"; apparently, both the sender and the recipient were familiar with the cypher being used, Very Fine and most unusual, signed P. Kaufmann. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $250.00
Will close during Public Auction
671 cover   imageMissouri in the Confederacy, small cover franked with a 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a light Shreveport, La. c.d.s., May 9, 1865 - exactly one month after Lee's surrender at Appomattox - and addressed to "John Gum, Co. D, Chisms Regiment, Forneys Division" [Texas Partisan Rangers]; endorsed at the left "Soldiers letter from, T.E. Peyton Co D, 16 Regiment 2 Brigade, Parsons Division, M C V [Missouri Confederate Volunteers]; somewhat soiled with a repaired side flap and minor reinforced fold tears, Fine and rare. The only recorded cover from a member of the Missouri Confederate Volunteers, a different unit than the Missouri State Guard, from which six covers are known.


Although Missouri was admitted as the 12th Confederate state in November 1861, because of the Union's quickly expanding occupation of most of the state, the Missouri State Government never officially seceded. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $1,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
672 cover   imageLucy Cobb "Cameos", two covers, each franked with just the oval portion of a 10¢ blue Archer & Daly, one of each type, and sent by Lucy Cobb (daughter-in-law of General Howell Cobb, wife of Cobb's son, Johnny) in Athens, Ga. to her mother-in-law in Macon, Ga.; each tied by an Athens c.d.s., Fine to Very Fine and most unusual.


Since the C.S.A. Post Office had no rule against using damaged or altered stamps, Lucy was able to indulge her fancy with these cut-to-shape cameos. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction
673 cover 12-KBb image1863, 10¢ dark blue, type II, Keatinge & Ball - Early Use (C.S.A. Catalog 12-KBb), pen-canceled on a small homemade cover - made from a marine depth chart - with manuscript postmark "Glasgow Sta. Va., 10 Sept" (1864), just six days after the earliest recorded use of the Keatinge & Ball printings, to Stony Point, Albemarle Co., Va., Very Fine.
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Estimate $150-200
SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction
674 cover 12-KBb image1863, 10¢ dark blue, type II, Keatinge & Ball - Late Use (C.S.A. Catalog 12-KBb), a huge-margined example tied on an orange cover tied by a partial red Greensboro N.C. c.d.s., Mar 23 (1865), to Mayo Forge, Patrick Co., Va.; edge and top flap tears, Fine to Very Fine. Very few red cancels on Keatinge & Ball franked covers are known.
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Estimate $150-200
SOLD for $110.00
Will close during Public Auction
675 cover   imageArcher & Daly types I & II Used Together, a large-margined single of each (the type I with a partial sheet margin) tied by a light Selma, Ala. c.d.s., Mar 21 (1864) on an exceptionally clean blue cover to Mobile, Ala., Extremely Fine. Combination uses of both types together are rarely ever encountered. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction
676 cover   image5¢ Lithographed, London & Richmond Printings Used Together, turned cover, the initial use franked with a 10¢ type I Archer & Daly tied by an Aug Columbia, S.C. c.d.s. to Taylor's Creek, S.C.; the cover was then turned and franked with one each of the London (left) and Richmond (right) printings of the 1862 5¢ lithographed tied by a Minersville, N.C. c.d.s., to Columbia, S.C.; corner wear, Fine and most unusual. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $250-350
SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction
677 cover   imageOutgoing Cover from Charleston, via Nassau, Bahamas to Liverpool, England, carried on the blockade-running Cunard West Indies Steamer Corsica with a light strike of the uncommon rimless "''Nassau-New-Providence, FE 13/1865"" transit c.d.s. on the reverse; sent unpaid with manuscript "2/" (shillings due), with blue crayon "1/5 + 7 = 2/-" accounting; Mar 4 Liverpool receiver on the front. Includes the original letter from Cornelius L. Burckmyer in Charleston to his wife, Charlotte, in Liverpool., Very Fine, signed P. Kaufmann.


Burckmyer adds a postscript, cross-written on the first of the four-page letter, "January 17. It is reported today that the ‘Syien’ by which I was to have sailed to Nassau and which undertook to go to sea on Saturday night was taken by the enemy. If so, I have had a providential escape. I hope it is not lost as I sent by her a large number of letters for friends and two for yourself." . (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $1,300.00
Will close during Public Auction
678 cover   imageCovers to Thomas Jefferson's Great-Grandchildren, two small covers, each franked with a 10¢ type I Archer & Daly and canceled Richmond; one to "Capt. M[eriwether] L[ewis] Randolph, Signal Officer, Gen Rodes Staff, Gen Ewell's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia", the other to Meriwether's sister, Sarah, care of their father, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Keswick Depot, Va., Fine to Very Fine or better, each signed Kimbrough. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction
679 cover   imageMillway Carrier, cover franked with a large-margined 10¢ type II Archer & Daly tied by a mostly clear Mar 20 Abingdon, Va. c.d.s., addressed to "New Market Depot, G & C.R.R., Albeville District, South Carolina" and endorsed "P.M., pleas [sic] forward by the Mill Way Carrier", Fine to Very Fine, signed Kimbrough.


This routing instruction is seen only on a very small group of covers addressed to New Market, S.C., a depot on the Greenville and Columbia Railroad route, some 15-20 miles distant from the Millway plantation. It was applied by the sender to make certain that letters were carried on to Millway by the official government mail routes. There is speculation that a slave from the Millway plantation may have been used, at least part of the time, to carry this mail. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $140.00
Will close during Public Auction

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