Items for Sale - Confederate Patriotic Covers, Section 1
17048

Item# 17048

Price: $700

RALEIGH / N.C. // JUL / 15 / 1862 blue double circle datestamp and matching arced DUE 10 on 12-star Confederate Flag, Cannon and Verse Patriotic design (CC type CN-3, CCV $1,500), to Violet A. Sifford, Catawba Springs, N.C. with endorsement on verso from “Privet John F. Sifford, 52th Reg.t Com. G, NC Troops.” Missing top back flap, Ex Boshwit and Oswald. $700.

John Frank Sifford was a 37-year old farmer when he enlisted 3-23-62 as a private in Company G, NC 52nd Infantry, Pettigrew’s Brigade. He was hospitalized in Petersburg in 1862 with acute rheumatism, returned to duty a few months later. He was taken prisoner at Falling Waters, MD 7-4-1863, sent to Baltimore and then Point Lookout, MD, where he died on 2-20-1864.

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