Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 412

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) PATRIOTIC COVERS--CONFEDERATE. "On to the rescue, the Vandals are coming, Go meet them with bayonet., saber and spear." Confederate cover, picked up on the battle-field at Yorktown. Patriotic cover with the "stars and bars" and a poem; Ink note on the reverse by Union soldier; two uncanceled five cent blue Jefferson Davis stamps. Richmond: J.W. Randolph, 1862

Additional Details

"Confederate envelope picked up at Yorktown, Va in May, 1862 by J. Warren Conard, Livingston's Battery, K, 3rd U.S. Artillery."