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(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) PATRIOTIC UNION COVERS. Group of eight Union covers, including several very unusual examples. Average size 3-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches; all in very good or better condition, none used. should be seen. [Place, date.]
Includes: 1. "One of the Rebels," 2. The Rebels Invoking the Aid of John Bull," 3, "A Member of the C. S.A. Alligator Rangers who is to make 5 of the 'Northern mudsills' run. We don't see it," a rare image of a drunken Confederate trooper, in silhouette, carrying a bottle of liquor in one hand and a cat o nine tails in the other, under his arm the "Stars and Bars"; 4, "Whar is Massa Jeff now, dat's what's de matter, the latest Contraband of War"; 5, "Taking Observations from a Dark Point," showing a white man on the back of a black man peering through a telescope; 6, "The Result of Secession"; 7 "Uncle Sam sends his Bird after Traitor Jeff"; and 8, "John Bull's Sympathy." From the Gordon Bleuler Collection of Civil War covers.
