Lot
2033 
Forest City, Vicksburg & Napoleon, U.S. Mail Packet, red oval handstamp on cover to Elcho, La., lack of postage and postal markings suggests this cover contained a bill of lading and thus transmitted free of postage charge, Very Fine and rare.Milgram No. unlisted Estimate $200 - 300.
Napoleon was a major transfer point at the mouth of the Arkansas River. Much of the river transported mail from the northern half of Arkansas passed onto the Mississippi River at Napoleon.
The packet "Forest City", built in Brownsville, Pa. in 1851, is listed on the Vicksburg & Napoleon route (Star Route #8167) from August to December 1858 when the contract belonged to William Porterfield.