LA391

Turned Adversity Cover made from blue-lined notebook paper. Cover with a little minor staining but still a Very Fine appearance and folded out for display. Very scarce turned Louisiaina - Texas  postal use. First Use - CSA #13 (4-Margin) tied by the small double circle Shreveport, La CDS 6 SEP (1864). Addressed to Mrs. Sarah A. Newell, Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Second Use - Stampless with the Huntsville, Tex CDS and handstamp PAID 10 Type D 23 SEP (1864). Addressed to Mr. Robert A. Newell, Auston (sic), Care of the Nitre & Mining Beauroe (sic), Texas. Robert Aiken Newell (1820-1881), an Irish immigrant to Louisiana before the war, married Sarah Ann Forman in 1856 and operated the Oak Grove Plantation near Cheneyville, La (central Louisiana south of Alexandria). He also had ties to the Louisiana Keary plantation family and the Catalpa Plantation also near Cheneyville.  In 1863, the Newell family relocated to Texas to avoid the Union occupation of Louisiana. At the time, he worked for the Nitre and Mining Company which was a private company that made gunpowder in central Texas later taken over by the government as the Nitre and Mining Bureau. The Robert A. Newell letters and papers are archived at Louisiana State University.

$2,500.00

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