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Lot 7009
Civil War, Banks Expedition Cover with #65 3c Red Vertical Pair Addressed to Col. Thomas E. Chickering, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Banks Expedition, Lousiana
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Openingsbod: $150
Verkocht voor $240
Stamps canceled with black oval “PAID" handstamp, the cover postmarked by red Boston, Mass. Jan 8 double-circle datestamp, addressed to Col. Thomas E. Chickering, 41st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, Banks’ Expedition, Genl. Grovers Division, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Manuscript docketing at left and recipient’s docketing reading “Recd Baton Rouge, Jan 23, 63.” Partial backflap remains.
Colonel Chickering assumed command of the 41st Massachusetts Infantry on September 15, 1862. The regiment was deployed to New Orleans in November 1862 as part of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks’s Louisiana expedition and subsequently garrisoned Baton Rouge during the winter of 1862–1863. In April and May 1863, the regiment participated in the Opelousas expedition, where Chickering was appointed military governor and commanded Union forces engaged in foraging operations and the recruitment of formerly enslaved men into the Union Army. A representative Banks Expedition military use to a senior regimental commander.
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