Lot 8034
#65 1864 3c Rose, Tied by Grid Cancel on Cover to the USS Emma, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
Addressed Aboard a Captured Confederate Blockade Runner Commissioned into Union Service
פתיחה: $50
הערכה: $100 - $200
Addressed to "W. H. Manning, Emma, U.S. Steamer North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Norfolk Navy Yard, Va." The USS Emma was originally a Confederate blockade runner captured off Wilmington, North Carolina on July 24, 1863, and purchased by the United States Navy at the New York Prize Court on November 4, 1863. She served in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off the North Carolina coast from November 1863 through the end of the Civil War, participating in both attacks on Fort Fisher in December 1864 and January 1865. Mail to sailors aboard blockading vessels was routed through the respective squadron's navy yard for onward fleet delivery, in this case Norfolk.
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