Items for Sale - Official, Semi-Official and State Imprints - Section 1 - Item#12398
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Item# 12398

CSA 11-AD10¢ blue adversity use (cut off another cover and reused contemporaneously) tiedCHARLESTON / S.C. // MAY / 9 cds (scarcer 29 mm postmark) on semi-official imprinted cover of Confederate States, Head Quarters, Department of So. Ca., Ga. and Fla. with Official Business scratched out; addressed to Mr. Jno. F. Ficken, Jr., Co. “B”, German Arty, Battery White, Georgetown, S.C.; back flap opening tears, Ex Judge Harry Lemley with his typewritten description and research.  [SC] $450.

Battery White is an earthwork artillery emplacement built circa 1862 and manned by Confederate troops during the Civil War. It was positioned on Mayrant’s Bluff, upper Winyah Bay, where its guns could command the seaward access to the nearby port of Georgetown. It was originally part of a plantation which was at one-time owned by Revolutionary War Colonel Peter Horry. Ficken (or Ficklin or Ficklen) was in Melcher’s Company South Carolina Artillery (Company B, German Artillery – also – German Co. B, SC Light Artillery Company).

Price: $450