4-5 Feb 1861 1st day of Confederacy/Civil War mail cover using Union US Postage

Description

Independent States & CSA Use of US Postage
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Georgia
&
South Carolina
-
1st Day of the Confederacy
: Feb. 4 1861
(1st Day of Confederacy) docketed cover from SAVANNAH Georgia to CHARLESTON South Carolina, franked 3c per period (US) domestic letter rate using US #26 dull red Washington Type III stamp, tied by round grid obliterator & FEB 5 [1861] local circular date-stamp in field (
1st full day of the Confederacy
); addressed to Mrs Isabella Woodruff Care Mrs. Roberts Orphan House. The
earlier dated docketing
, in the absense of the original letter, suggests
the cover may have been couriered
from the locale of the sender and deposited at the post office in SAVANNAH, where postmarked/dispatched the next day.
Georgia seceded from the Union on
19 Jan. 1861, becoming an independent state for 16-17 days
(per Walske, 17; per CSA catalogue, 16); the Confederacy is generally considered established as of
4 Feb.
with the start of the Convention of the 7 Seceding States,
which included Georgia & South Carolina
(the Confederacy was
formally established on the 8th
). Here a cover
handled &
dated
during the
State of Georgia's
last day of independence
AND
1st day in the Confederacy
-
using
US postage
and the
US postal service
(this suspended to the Confederacy as of
1 June
1861) + and
1st day
inter-Confederacy
mail
.
Partly slit open at top, flap tear from original opening has been repaired, right flap tip missing. Some correspondents record the number of their letters: the overwritten "12" with "13" on the front, whose ink corresponds to the additional text in the address, may indicate that this letter was originally intended to be the 12th in the series and later changed to the 13th.
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