(POSTAL COVERS CONFEDERATE) Unite or Die the device of our

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(POSTAL COVERS--CONFEDERATE.) Unite or Die, the device of our Fathers in their first struggle for liberty. Postal cover bearing the image of a snake in 15 segments, each representing a state of the Confederacy. Np, circa 1861-1865

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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 a state of the Confederacy: South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, North Carolina, Texas, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri. The caption is a 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 a UNION WITH EACH OTHER."