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Item# 20049
Price: $800
CSA 12, 10¢ blue tied by light GALVESTON / Tex cds on overpaid drop letter to P.C. Tucker, Esq., W.M. Harmony Lodge No. 6, Galveston City, Galveston Co(unty) Texas. Folded letter hand-carried from Lynchburg, Va. to Galveston nearly one month after Confederate forces surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. Unusual mail from and to areas of the Confederacy no longer operating a mail service. Galveston was surrendered by Gen. Kirby Smith on June 2. The letter is datelined “Sampson [Masonic] Lodge, No 231, Lynchburg, May 6th.” The left edge of the letter and part of lodge seal are missing, otherwise Fine and wonderful late use. See inside letter $800.