(MILITARY CIVIL WAR) PATRIOTIC CONFEDERATE COVERS Unite or

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(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) PATRIOTIC CONFEDERATE COVERS. "Unite or Die. The device of our fathers in their first struggle for liberty, ---1776." Cover with two un-cancelled Confederate stamps: one of them being a five cent First Confederate Issue; This patriotic cover bears the image of a snake, in 15 segments, each representing a state in the Confederacy. Charlotte, N.C., circa 1863

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one of the rarest known confederate covers, bearing a boldly engraved image of a snake broken into 15 segments, each representing the states of South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, North Carolina, Texas, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri. Bearing the caption ""UNITE OR DIE," with a long quote from Jefferson Davis: "Slave States, once more let me repeat, that the only way of preserving our slave property, or what we prize more than life, our Liberty is by UNION WITH EACHOTHER." The two stamps on this envelope are very rare as well. The one with George Washington's image is the only Confederate stamp to bear it. The segmented snake design was first devised by Benjamin Franklin, and bore the caption "JOIN OR DIE," representing the original colonies and appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. From the Gordon Bleuler Collection of Civil War covers.