Federal Civil War postal history
By: by James W. Milgram
Publisher: Northbrook Publishing
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lake Forest, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780961401849
Subjects: Postal service; History
Description: The purpose of this book is to present the postal usages which were associated with the federal or Union troops and patriotic civilians during the American Civil War 1861-1865. This is in contrast with those postal usages that were associated with the Confederate States of America and its soldiers, a very strongly collected area of specialization. With the production of patriotic stationary, both envelopes and letter paper, the Civil War created a large variety of collectible federal postal objects used by both civilian and military. The postal usages of Union soldiers include special due usages when letters were certified by officers, interesting maritime mail from both coastal as well as inland river locations, hospital and prison mail, and specialized postmarks which are either patriotic or which deal with certain military camps and reoccupied town. Other chapters include slave related stationary, the election of 1860, and federal postage usage in the South during the formation of the Confederacy.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery and abolitionism; title: 1860 presidential campaign; title: Federal postal usages in the South; title: Union patriotic stationery; title: Demonetization of 1857-1860 stamps and envelopes; title: Soldiers' letters; title: Handstamped or printed certifying markings on soldiers' mail; title: Maritime postal usages from coastal and ocean locations; title: Maritime postal usages from inland waterways; title: West Virginia mail, special military post offices, and postmarks of reoccupied towns; title: Patriotic postal markings, military markings, and military cornercards; title: Franked soldiers' mail, free mail, and post office business postmarks; title: Hospital mail; title: Christian Commission mail; title: Sanitary Commission mail; title: Union prisoner of war mail; title: Northern parole camps and political prisoners' mail; title: Flag of truce mail; title: Express companies and registered mail; title: Appendix: Imprints on patriotic covers / by Gene Freeman.