Items for Sale - CSA 11, 10¢ Blue Intaglio - Type I on Cover - Section Three - Item#16109
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Item# 16109

CSA 11a, 10¢ milky blue top sheet margin single (pre-use creases) tied ATLANTA / Ga // JUN / 15 cds on cover to Lt. A. J. Locke, Commanding Lake Squadron, ?, Ala. with ridiculing “return address” at top “From J. M. deLacy, Chf Convoy to his Excellency Abe Linkun Esq Vs His Majesty Henry Ward Beecher Stowe alias Mdmssl Harriet Beecher Stowe.” While somewhat foxed / stained with a bit of address ink erosion, this is an exceptional mocking piece of postal history. Ex Cox. $300.

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, one of the precipitating factors of the Civil War. Her younger brother was Henry Ward Beecher, a minister, preacher and social reformer who supported abolition and women’s suffrage.

Lt. Andrew Jackson Locke was in 1st Regiment Alabama Volunteers, Company A, Capt. Hardy’s Co. (Eufaula Minute Men). Records show that, while stationed as Lt. Comdg at Chattahoochee, Florida, Ft. Cobb, in September 1863, he applied to General Beauregard to raise a company of Siege Artillery to be stationed at Columbus, Georgia. It was referred to the Secretary of War and such authority was granted.

J. M. DeLacy served in the Georgia 26th Infantry, Company B, Wilson’s / Stevens’ Brigade, Walker’s Division, 1st Corps, Army of Tennessee, 1863-65. He enlisted in Greenville. He is also listed as J. M. Delacia and shown as wounded, admitted Jan. 7, 1865, on the register of Way Hospital, Meridian, Miss. The actual location at the hospital was in Marion.

Price: $300