POW216

Two Covers -- Civilian Flag of Truce North-to-South (same correspondence) (Not POW) First Cover -- CSA #8 (margin touches at left but with a spectacular pre-printing paper fold at the lower left corner affixed sideways) tied by the Richmond, Va CDS 2 JUN (1864) Powell Type 6m. Addressed to G. B. Smith Care of Waldo P. Johnson, Richmond, Va. At upper left in manuscript “Via Flag Truce” in the same hand as the address. The cover is a very unusual Richmond Drop Letter and a Civilian Flag of Truce cover. This would be the inside cover of the Through-the-Lines use with the outside cover containing the Union postage having been discarded at the transfer point. Therefore, the cover required only the CSA drop letter rate as Richmond was the final destination. The point of origin in the North is not known as the outer cover was discarded, and there is no enclosure. Cover very possibly originated in Union Missouri. Cover has a small stain at top center and a very minor reduction at the left but is otherwise Very Fine with an unusual and very scarce postal use combining the 2c Red-Brown stamp with Drop Letter and Civilian Flag-of-Truce postal use. Galen Harrision's research indicates that no more than six Flag of Truce covers are known with the 2c Red-Brown stamp. Ex- Harrison Exhibit. Second Cover -- CSA #12 (AD) (margin close at the top) tied by two strikes of the Richmond, Va CDS 13 MAY (1864) Powell Type 6m. Same correspondence as the first cover but in a different hand. Addressed to Mr. Green B. Smith Care Waldo P. Johnson Esq, Richmond, Virginia. Richmond Overpaid Drop Letter. This cover is not marked as a Flag of Truce cover but is dated only a few weeks before the first cover and could very well be an unmarked through-the-lines cover. There is no enclosure. Part of top back flap missing, otherwise Very Fine. Ex- Galen Harrison Exhibit. Waldo Porter Johnson (1817-1885) in 1861 was a US Senator from Missouri and was expelled from the US Senate 1/10/1862 for disloyalty to the USA as he had joined the Confederate Army. He served as Major of the 1st Missouri Battalion (CSA) and then Lt Col of the 4th Missouri Infantry (CSA) and was twice wounded at Pea Ridge. He later served as a Confederate Senator from Missouri from late 1863 until the end of the war. After the war, he spent a year in exile in Canada before returning to Missouri. The addressee, Green B. Smith, is not identified but believed by Galen Harrision to possibly be Sgt Green B. Smith of Co F 11th Missouri Infantry (CSA). Sgt Green B. Smith was placed on the CSA Roll of Honor for bravery at the Battle of Jenkins Ferry (Ark) in April 1864. These two covers complement each other and will only be sold as a pair on the exhibit page.

$3,750.00 Two Covers SOLD

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