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Item# 11094
Price: $SOLD
3¢ red star-die entire (U26) entire tied grid and EUFAULA / Ala. // APR / 8 [1861] cds, to Arba Sternes, Columbia, SC, UNLISTED Confederate Use of U.S. Postage, opening back flap tear extends over the top down through the postmark 1 ¾”. Enclosed two 4-page letters headed April 6 and April 8, in which she discusses the barriers to their romance. Mentions getting his letter in only 3 days so thinks there has been an alteration to the mail and must be going by train. Also, “…an Army of 8 hundred men came up the river from below yesterday bound for Pensacola by the way of Columbus and Montgomery. There was 500 on one Boat and 300 on another…tell me if Fort Sumter is abandoned, for we have so many fake rumors (“fake news,”Civil War style)” $150.