Sternes Correspondence - Item#11087
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Item# 11087

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3¢ dull red (26) (lower left corner crease) tied grid and EUFAULA / Ala. // APR / 22 [1861] cds on small MOURNING COVER (4 ¼” x 2 ½”) to Arba Sternes, Columbia, SC, UNLISTED Confederate Use of U.S. Postage, 4-page letter from Julia Lowman dated the same day talking about relatives who are conspiring to lay claim to her late brother’s estate, which he has left in part to Julia’s son. She has bee putting off going to live at her brother’s plantation because 14 of the Negroes are down with the measles, but she checks on them every day. The overseer of the “Upper Plantation” tells her they are also 5 down with it up there. She says, “The Baltimore Boys have immortalized their name. Tomorrow Fort Pickens is to be attacked.” (Pensacola, Fla.) SOLD as part of the Sternes correspondence. Kept on the website to tell the story.

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