Items for Sale - Prisoner of War & Civilian Flag of Truce - Section One - Item#19854
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Item# 19854

CIVILIAN FLAG-OF-TRUCE: Kinston N.C. Inner flag-of-truce cover from a GALVANIZED YANKEE (former soldier who fought for both sides during the war) at Norfolk Va. to John W. Staley, Marleys Mills, N.C.; manuscript examiner's mark of CSA censor “E.P. White, Lt. & A.A.D.C.” with postage paid by CSA 12a, 10¢ milky blue with large margins all around (tiny hole at right center), tied by KINSTON / N.C. // Jan / 9 (1865) CDS, exchanged through New Bern and Kinston N.C.; cover slightly reduced at left, Very Fine. CIVILIAN MAIL SENT BY EXCHANGE POINTS OTHER THAN THOSE IN SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ARE VERY SCARCE. Kinston was closer to New Bern than Goldsborough and was used by the CSA as a flag-of-truce exchange point when it was not threatened by Federal troops. This cover was sent by Pvt. Marshall S. Rains, a Galvanized Yankee who had been a Confederate soldier in the 22nd N.C. He was captured at Gettysburg, took the oath of allegiance, and joined the U.S. 1st Volunteer Infantry in 1864. Illustrated and correspondence discussed in the.  Confederate Philatelist (No. 240, Nov. 1987), ex Walske. $950.

Price: $950