Items for Sale - Confederate Patriotic Covers, Section 2

Item# 20652

New 3-1-23

Price: $850

CSA 11c, 10¢ greenish blue (4 large margin) tied Army field cancel on captured Howell’s Poems Union patriotic “Waiting for the Mail,” addressed to Doct. Winsmith, Glenn Springs PO, Spartanburg Dist(rict) So Ca. Top back flap missing, but a real beauty. Ex Ralph Swap. See Fiancé’s Ultimatum: Change Your Name or Farewell! https://www.trishkaufmann.com/masonry/resources/trish-march-2022-asc-final.pdf $850.

Dr. John C. Winsmith (1802-1888) was born John Winn Smith near Glenn Springs, S.C. From 1822 to 1825, he attended and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Upon his return to S.C., he practiced medicine in the Spartanburg and Union Districts. He changed his name from John Winn Smith to John Winsmith due to his fiancé’s ultimatum. He represented Spartanburg District in the S.C. legislature from 1830 to 1832 and again from 1852 to 1862 and 1865-1866. He also served as a delegate to the Southern Rights Convention of 1852. During the Civil War, he served the Confederate Army as captain of Company H, 1st Regiment, S.C. Volunteers. While serving in the S.C. Senate, he opposed the 1865 "Black Code" that attempted to exert control over freedmen. Previously a Democrat, he joined the Republican Party in 1870 and was subsequently attacked and seriously wounded by the Ku Klux Klan because of his cooperation with the Radical government.

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