US 26, 3¢ dull red tied by SAINT LOUIS / MO. // AUG / 2 / 1861 cds on cover to S. C. Treat Esq, Decorah, Iowa; slightly and irregularly reduced at right. Missouri was a border state that sent men, armies, generals and supplies to both sides, had governments representing each side and more. It seceded October 31, 1861, and was admitted to the Confederacy November 28, 1861. While there may be an example of independent state use from Missouri, none is listed in the CSA catalog. Most who want Missouri represented in their Confederate collections do so by with one of the few POW covers from Gratiot Street Prison in Saint Louis, which housed Confederate prisoners. Ex Fisher. $230. 

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