CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA

STAMPS, POSTAL HISTORY, CURRENCY

Patriotic Cover Richland Station, Ten 1861




Welcome to my Web Page. Please bookmark this page if you intend to return to the site. By visiting this website, you are about to embark on a journey through Confederate Philately. All the various sections are listed on the toolbar at the left. Clicking each button on the toolbar in turn will open that section in this frame with the toolbar always remaining at the left for easy navigation. Use the Site Map for an outline view of the complete website. For the optimum visual effect, it would be best if your screen was maximized. The listings and the images of the stamps and covers are best viewed with Internet Explorer 11. Edge, Firefox, Chrome and other browsers will not show the table border frame colors. For example, this table has a two color blue and red border in Internet Explorer 11 but only shows as two shades of gray in the other browsers. If you wish to print out any of the pages or frames, printing can be easily done with Internet Explorer 11. Support for Internet Explorer 11 is ending. Instead of Internet Explorer 11 for those who no longer use it, Edge or Chrome is recommended.

Please do not forget to sign the GUESTBOOK when you have finished browsing the site. I certainly hope that you will enjoy your tour of Confederate Philately.

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History needs to be studied and understood so that the people of today can learn from history and learn from the people who lived the history so that the mistakes of history are not repeated. This Confederate philatelic website, which is totally non-political and non-sectarian and exisits only for the study of the Civil War period stamps and postal systems of a major event in American history, has been continuously operational since February 1997. Over the years, this website has grown into a major source of Confederate Civil War Stamps, Postal History (Covers), and Currency for both the beginner and the advanced CSA Philatelic Collector.

8 MAR 2022 -- This website was initially designed at a time when people did not use phones to surf the Internet. This website was designed for desktop and laptop computers with a larger screen. The website will also work well on a tablet with a larger screen. The website will work with all browsers and will work on your phone. It just may be a bit difficult to view and navigate on a phone because of the smaller screen, but it can be done with a little practice. To make the website fully mobile compatible would mean redesigning the website from the ground up and could potentially cost thousands of dollars to do so. I am not prepared to do that, so the website will for the immediate future remain as it is. Currently, about 10% of visits are made using a phone (either an iPhone or an Android).

Web Site Designed and Maintained By

John L. Kimbrough MD
Colonel United States Air Force 1968-1991 (Retired)

This website was entered in the 1999 APS Philatelic Literature Competition and was awarded a Silver Medal at the APS Stamp Show '99 held in Cleveland, Ohio 25-29 AUG 1999.

-- DIXIE (35K) --

-- BONNIE BLUE FLAG (18K) --

Click on "Dixie" or "Bonnie Blue Flag" above for a rendition of these popular tunes of the South. Will play with any standard Midi-Player application. Depending on how your browser is setup, they may play automatically when downloaded, or you may have to manually open the file after downloading to hear them.

Third National Flag adopted March 1865

  • "The Stamp Collecting Guidesite at About.com is proud to award the About.com "Best of the Net" award to you and the CSA Stamps and Postal History web site. It was selected because yours is a terrific mix of quality content, demonstrating outstanding knowledge of the topic, and quality design based on the site's usability, dependability and creativity." The preceding quote is from Mike Mills, the Philatelic Internet Columnist ("The Glassine Surfer") for the American Philatelist. He has honored this website with a Philatelic "Best of the Net" award. Click on the logo below for a direct link to his stamp collecting website.

  • This website was selected as "Stamp Site of the Week" for the week of 4 FEB 2001 by a world wide philatelic website evaluation team based in New Zealand. 
  • A review of this website appeared in the "Stamps on the Internet" column by William F. Sharpe in the April 5, 1999 issue of Linn's Stamp News. Click on the title if you wish to read the review article in its entirety.
  • A second very favorable review of this website also appeared in the "Stamps on the Net" column by Kim Frankenhoff in the May 24, 1999 issue of Stamp Collector. Click on the title if you wish to read the review article in its entirety

Great Seal of the Confederate States of America

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