CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVER ARMS OF TENNESSEE

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVER ARMS OF TENNESSEE:
$15.00

CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVERS ARMS OF TENNESSEETHIS sale CONTAINS ORIGINALS PATRIOTIC COVERARMS OF TENNESSEE
EACH PATRIOTIC COVER IS 3/1/16\" X 5 1/4\" IN SIZE, CoversPatriotic covers

The years during the American Civil War were a period marked with strong sentiments and loyalties towards both sides involved, and this sentiment is clearly displayed on various Civil War correspondence known to collectors and historian as Patriotic Covers. Citizens, many of whom had family members and friends off fighting in the war, or who had died in battle, often expressed their loyalties with envelopes illustrated with Flags, portraits, slogans and allegorical figures such as that of Liberty, which clearly captured the sentiments of that time. This practice was most evident in the North where there were many printers, especially in the larger cities, who produced an assortment of envelopes that proudly displayed these designs and which quickly became popular among the citizenry. The situation in the south was quite different. The demand for printers in the agrarian South was much less, and consequently established and qualified printers were generally nonexistent throughout most of the Confederacy. The South also lacked the North\'s industrialized advantages and supplies, and so the various Confederate patriotic covers that have survived the years are scarce and rare and usually have considerable value

Confederate Patriotic Coverwith Confederate seven star FlagUnion Patriotic CoverAllegory of Standing Liberty and Flagmailed from Westchester, PA.
(Black area is color of background)
I INVITE YOU TO VISIT MY OTHER sale\'S, AS MORE FINE ORIGINAL PATRIOTIC COVERS OF THE PERIOD, ARE CURRENTLY LISTED.
\'OWNHISTORY\'