Items for Sale - CSA 10, 10¢ Blue Intaglio "Frame Line" on Cover

Item# 20262

Price: $4,500

CSA 10, 10¢ blue Frameline with complete framelines on three sides, right margin full, tied by MOBILE / ALA. // AUG / 2? double-circle datestamp on Headquarters, 22d Mississippi Regiment. imprint cover to Mrs. Col. F. Schaller, Columbia, South Carolina, stamp with some slight gum toning, cover with expertly repaired tiny tear at right top, Extremely Fine. A choice and rare use of the 10-cent frameline issue on an EXTREMELY RARE MILITARY IMPRINT COVER, UNLISTED IN CSA CATALOG. Ex Brown, 1988 CSA certificate. SCV $3,250. $3,500.  Listed on both Semi-official Imprints, section 2, and CSA 10 Covers.

Frank Schaller enlisted as a Lt. Colonel in Field & Staff of Mississippi 22nd Infantry. He was promoted to colonel. He was a German immigrant living in South Carolina. He was briefly assigned to a regiment in Louisiana and then to the 5th Texas Regiment before being assigned to the 22nd Mississippi Regiment. He arrived at Camp Beauregard, Kentucky, on November 5, 1861. Due to illness, he was absent 18 months. Colonel Reid officially took over as commander on July 30, 1863. He was severely wounded at Shiloh Church so as to be disabled for future service. An April 18 and April 24, 1863, surgeons’ reports show he was suffering from a difficult-to-treat gunshot wound to the foot that partially paralyzed him below the knee joint. He also suffered from chronic diarrhea for at least several months. Military records include his articulate multi-page written protests to President Jefferson Davis and various generals that he has been “deprived of the command of the 22 Miss. Regt. and that my name has been ordered to be erased from the rolls of that regiment in disgrace.” There are 112 pages of records on/from Col. Schaller in the National Archives. He explains his background in Europe in the military and how he came to espouse the Confederate cause. It is fascinating reading. Military records show he resigned December 27, 1863, and then again that he resigned June 2, 1864, with no explanation of the duplication.

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