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Lot# 5374 - Auction 321-332

  • Lot# : 5374 USA

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    Confederate States 1861: 5 c. green, Stone 1, a fine horizontal pair with large margins all round, used on 1861 cover to Manassas Junction, VA., cancelled by eight bar grill in blue with "SANDERSVILLE / Ga." alongside in blue (Dec 21). Addressed to one Ivy W. Duggan of Col. Toombs's Brigade in the 15th Georgian Regiment who later wrote of the Battle of Antietam: “[enemy] advanced in great numbers, and were already in good range of our trusty Enfield’s. The order to fire was obeyed with the greatest alacrity. For some time the enemy preserved an admirable line, but at length it began to waver, we leaped the fence, raised a yell, and pushed the scattered fugitives over ground strewn with their own fallen. New lines of reinforcements were met in the same manner….[We] had no reinforcements [but] chivalry [was] displayed on this occasion, while our little regiment loaded itself with laurels, [which] challenges admiration beyond everything I have ever witnessed. I have never seen it equaled before! I never expect to see it again.” Scott = $ 475.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,300 CHF