National Postal Museum
Confederate flag-of-truce cover
July 25, 1864
This envelope is from one of the Hincks brothers to his father. The July 25, 1864, letter was marked 'Examined' at Hilton Head by Capt. Neville Soulé, GS Gen. and Staff, Adj. Gen. Dept. of Charleston, and then it was handled as Flag of Truce mail. 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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