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Confederate blockade-run cover
Object Details
- Description
- This envelope is addressed to their father and is docketed “#112” and dated March 18, 1865. It was most likely entrusted to Col. Hatch, C.S.A. Agent for Exchange, and given to a blockade runner to be taken to Cuba. From there it was placed aboard a regular steamer headed for occupied New Orleans. (However, it is also possible that Hatch handed the letter over to his Federal counterpart at Hilton Head, who, as a favor, could have sent it on to Port Royal to be put aboard a New Orleans-bound supply ship.) Upon arrival in New Orleans, it was placed into the regular incoming U.S. mail and marked “collect” ten cents as incoming ship mail.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- March 18, 1865
- Object number
- 2005.2005.68
- Recipient
- Hincks
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Place
- Confederate States of America
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- Topic
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_2005.2005.68
- Usage
- CC0
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