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USA. Dated between 1862 and 1865. This Civil War era envelope serves as an advertisement for the Car Bell company of Hartford, Connecticut, and its illustrated Union envelopes.

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The sunny South : our country. Dated between 1861 and 1865. This pro-Confederate Civil War era envelope depicts a young child, possibly representing the young Confederacy, holding the snake of abolition in one hand as he holds the national flag of…

Jeff. Davis, Pres.t. a secession envelope. Dated between 1861 and 1865. This pro-Confederate envelope depicts the seven star secession flag and bears the names of Jeff Davis and Alexander H. Stephens. The Confederacy used the seven-star flag as its…

The Loyal States. Maine. Dated between 1861 and 1865. A patriotic Civil War envelope depicting a female, possibly Columbia, who holds the Union flag as she leans on a shield emblazoned with the state seal of Maine. The female rests her left foot atop…

The Rebel States. Alabama. Dated between 1861 and 1865. This Civil War envelope depicts a devil holding a shield emblazoned with the Alabama state seal in one hand and bearing the national flag of the Confederacy in his other.

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Union soldiers from various regiments. Dated between 1861 and 1865. This Civil War envelope depicts Union soldiers from the following ten regiments: (1.) the Highlanders, Seventy-ninth Reg.; (2.) the Second Battalion, B. L. I.; (3.) Duryea's Zouaves,…

Hon. Jefferson Davis, champion of the South. Dated 1865. This post-Civil War envelope depicts former Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Confederate flags, cannons, and bayoneted rifles prominently adorn the envelope.

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Luther C. Ladd. Dated between 1861 and 1865. A portrait of Civil War soldier Luther C. Ladd of the Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. The envelope bears the inscription: “Luther C. Ladd, of Alexandria, N.H., was shot in the Baltimore…

Col. Ellsworth, the martyr. Dated between 1861 and 1865. This Civil War envelope depicts Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first Union soldier killed in the war. Ellsworth was shot and killed while in the process of taking down a Confederate flag above…

Union. Dated between 1861 and 1865. A patriotic Civil War envelope depicting an artistic rendering of the Union flag.

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