SR40

CSA #1 Stone 1 (not plated) (margin touches at the top) uncancelled but tied by period staining. Military Address to Mr. John Snow, Capt Lumsden's Lt Art Bat Co F, Mobile, Ala. Pencil date at left "Feb 62" which is most likely period receiving docketing referring to the date of the original letter. Alabama River System Steamboat Cover with steamboat routing manuscript at lower left "Cherokee." The Cherokee (built 1859 and sent to Mobile) is not listed as a Confederate Packet in the new CSA catalog but worked the Alabama River as this cover proves. Cover placed as a loose letter on the Cherokee somewhere on the river and delivered directly to Mobile. The stamp paid the postage and should have been cancelled in Mobile, but for whatever reason was not cancelled. The addresse, John Snow, was the Quartermaster Sergeant of Co F 2nd Ala Battalion Light Artillery commanded by Capt C. L. Lumsden. Information on Alabama soldiers is very sketchy. The unit was organized at Tuscaloosa in November 1861 and assigned to the Army of Mobile January-April 1862. Period ink staining. The stains tying the stamp are clear fingerprints. Minor trimming of the top edge, and top back flap missing. Mobile River (cover most likely orginated near Tuscaloosa as that is where the unit was raised) Steamboat Cover.

$500.00 SOLD

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