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Smuggled Mail from Federal-Occupied New Orleans. Oatmeal cover addressed to "Emile H. Reynes, care Capt. Gustave LeGardeur, Orleans Guards Battery, Charleston S.C.", with sender's directive "Office Prov. Mar. Genl Demopolis, Ala." and "Charge box 71", "Demopolis Ala. Jun. 4" (ca. 1863) circular datestamp and manuscript "Paid 10"

VERY FINE. AN EXTREMELY RARE COVER FROM THE WELL-KNOWN REYNES CORRESPONDENCE -- SENT BY COVERT MEANS FROM FEDERAL-OCCUPIED NEW ORLEANS.

The sender of this cover used covert means to carry mail from Federal-occupied New Orleans to the Confederate Provost Marshal at Demopolis, where the letter entered the mails and 10c postage was charged to a box account. The best-known examples of covert mail from New Orleans are the Louisiana Relief Committee covers. This is an excellent example of additional means residents of New Orleans found to communicate with other parts of the Cofederacy.

Ex Dr. Skinner and Dr. Brandon.

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Smuggled Mail from Federal-Occupied New Orleans. 3c Rose (65) with wide straddle-pane margin, tied by brush stroke, bold "Summit Miss." dateless circle handstamp on small cover to Berzelia Ga., manuscript "from Orleans" and "due 10c", additional manuscript "Pd WEL", receipt docketing "Recd 4 Feb/64"

VERY FINE. AN EXTREMELY RARE COVER SMUGGLED OUT OF FEDERAL-OCCUPIED NEW ORLEANS AND PLACED INTO THE CONFEDERATE MAILS AT SUMMIT, MISSISSIPPI.

The manuscript "from Orleans" notation applied at the Summit post offices indicates that the postmaster was aware of the letter's origin and familiar with the practice of smuggling mail out of New Orleans where Confederate sympathizers were under the governance of the U.S. military. Because of its location on the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad, the town of Summit, Mississippi, was an exchange point for through-the-lines mail to and from the western Confederacy. The U.S. stamp was affixed in New Orleans, but it served no purpose in the Confederate mail system.

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Smuggled Mail from Federal-Occupied New Orleans. Brown cover addressed to "Emile H. Reynes, care Capt. Gistave LeGardeur, Orleans Guards Battery, Charleston S.C.", with sender's directive "Office Prov. Mar. Genl Demopolis, Ala." and "Charge box 71", "Demopolis Ala. Jun. 4" (ca. 1863) circular datestamp and ms. "Paid 10", Very Fine, an extremely rare cover from the well-known Reynes correspondence -- the sender used covert means to carry mail from Federal-occupied New Orleans to the Confederate Provost Marshal at Demopolis, where the letter entered the mails and 10c postage was charged to a box account, ex Skinner

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