National Postal Museum
Confederate flag-of-truce cover
November 12, 1864
This envelope is from one of the Hincks brothers to his sister Lucile. The October 31, 1864, letter was probably censored by J.A. Hincks himself, and then it was sent out to be exchanged locally between Charleston and Hilton Head. It entered the regular U.S. mail at Port Royal. The 1861 3-cent stamp carried it to occupied New Orleans.
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