Lot 2502
Confederacy, Newbury, England to Athens, Alabama, cover with "Newbury, Fe 19, 61" origin cds, "N. York Am. Pkt., 24, Mar 2" cds and 3 debit handstamp, original enclosure with interesting content in part…so sorry to hear of the Secession of the States. What will be the result? Won't Congress grant the Southern States all they ask? If not what will be the end…I fear those bad Politicians that have been managing the Country for several years will destroy the Union at last. What a pity (Andrew) Jackson would have gone further than South Carolina, Very Fine.Estimate $200 - 300.
Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11th and was admitted to the Confederacy on February 4, 1861.
Realized: $220