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United States, Possessions and Confederate States Stamps and Postal History continued...

Civil War: Correspondences, U.S. Post Office thru C.S.A. Handstamped Paid
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
2367   Captain James Graton of the First Colored Infantry, Kansas Correspondence. 13 letters and covers, most written to his wife in either Lawrence Kans., Flint Mich., or West Webster N.Y., various dates between January 1863 thru November 1865 and written from different camps within Fort Scott, Fort Gibson, Pine Bluff Ark. and others, interesting content regarding some battles, covers in slightly mixed condition but a few with interesting markings, Fine-Very Fine, a scarce correspondence involving colored troops

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $1,300.00
Will close during Public Auction
2368   Civil War Documents. Group of four Union Army documents, 1862 pass for soldier leave signed by Asst. Adjt. Gen. for Department of Mississippi, 1864 summons addressed to Medal of Honor winner General Edmund W. Rice to appear at the court martial of General Thomas W. Sweeney (Sweeny got into a fistfight with his corps commander, General Grenville M. Dodge, when Dodge broke protocol and personally directed one of Sweeny's brigades during the Battle of Atlanta, Sweeny was acquitted), 1865 letter on Commissary of Subsistence letterhead, finally 1864 handwritten circular signed by Captain Thomas Eayre for 2nd Corps (he was killed at Spotsylvania C.H. the next month), Very Fine and fascinating group

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 E. $ 400-500

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
2369 c 1864 Civil War Solider Correspondence of Wright Family of Oberlin, Ohio. 15 letters accompanied by their original covers, all postmarked at Washington D.C. over a period of a couple months from May to July, letters originate from various places such as Fort Bunker Hill, National Hall, Fort Thayer, Fort Slocum and Fort Stevens, letters legible and detailed and cover a variety of topics such as a murder of a private by a sergeant, a hand-drawn map of forts, President Lincoln references, cannon drills, among much more, covers with edge faults of little significance, Fine

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction
2370   Image1863 Soldier Letter Regarding Slavery. 6-page letter (missing the very last part) written by a soldier and datelined "Near Richmond Va., August 12, 1863", letter takes up the subject of slavery to an individual who agrees with slavery and against abolishing it, speaks of meeting a plantation owner near Richmond with over 4,000 acres and with hundreds of slaves, speaks of one young slave in particular who was the plantation owner's daughter and his shock in him "owning her", and more, Very Fine (Image)

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 E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $130.00
Will close during Public Auction
2371   Memoirs, by John H. Reagan. 351-page book, first edition published in 1906, discusses his entire life with emphasis on the Civil War, trivial cover wear, pencil "Jos. A Goddard 1907" inside refers to a soldier who must have owned the book at one point (small synopsis accompanies), Very Fine, accompanied by cut signature of Reagan

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 E. $ 100-150

SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction
2372 c Image1c Blue, Ty. V (24). Used with vertical pair of 1861, 1c Blue (63), cancelled by matching target, pair tied by "Hartford Ct. Aug. 22, 1861" double-circle datestamp on cover to Suffield, Very Fine, a scarce use of both the 1857 and 1861 Issues prior to demonetization, ex Herzog, with 2002 P.F. certificate (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $1,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
2373 c ImageMAILS SUSPENDED. Partly clear oval handstamp on legal-size cover to E. B. Cilley, a prisoner at Salisbury N.C., sender's notation "Prisoner of War from the 5th N.H. Reg.", 3c Rose (65) pen cancelled, blue "Hill N.H. Aug. 27" circular datestamp, missent to Salisbury New Hampshire with blue "Salisbury N.H. Aug. 29" circular datestamp and manuscript forwarding notation, vertical folds clear of stamp, Very Fine, mailed in August 1862 after prisoner-of-war exchanges were suspended, thus the "Mails Suspended" marking, ex Walske (see Siegel Sale 988, lot 111 for P.O.W. cover from same correspondence), with 1990 P.S.E. certificate (Image)

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 E. $ 750-1,000

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
2374 c Image"Bowling Green Ky. Feb. 19th" (1862) -- Earliest Reported Federal Use After Occupation. Manuscript postmark on U.S. 3c Red Star Die entire to Williamstown Mass., endorsed "Soldiers letter & no new stamps -- H.H.S. Ast Surgeon", obsolete embossed stamp cancelled by Louisville "DUE 3" straightline handstamp applied in transit, backflap removed, Very Fine, ex Schwartz, this is the earliest reported cover posted at Bowling Green after U.S. occupation, the Confederates evacuated completely by February 14, 1862, this was mailed just five days later (Image)

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 E. $ 750-1,000

SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction
2375 c Image"Warsaw La. Feb. 6th". Manuscript postmark on 3c Red on Buff Star Die entire (U27) to Rochester N.Y., cancelled by manuscript, sealed tear on back, Very Fine, Louisiana was admitted to the Confederacy only two days before this was sent (Image)

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 E. $ 150-200

SOLD for $80.00
Will close during Public Auction
2376 c ImageSavannah Geo. Feb. 11 (1861). Circular datestamp and matching "5" in circle rate handstamp on "American Telegraph Company, Washington and New Orleans Line" embossed belt-framed shield corner card cover to Apalachicola Fla., some minor wear and soiling, Very Fine and scarce design, even more desirable as a Confederate use (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
2377 c ImageAmite City La., May 27. Bold strike of circular datestamp with manuscript date and "Paid" handstamp on May 27, 1862 folded letter to Independence La., letter regarding a telegraphic message stating "our boys well" and that Captain Rosser was slightly wounded in the arm, Very Fine (Image)

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 E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $130.00
Will close during Public Auction

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