Lot
2728 
U.S. Civil War, 1864 Blockade Run Cover Addressed to Flat Rock, North Carolina. Postmarked Wilmington with that city's matching straight line "Ship", rated "12" in manuscript, being 2 cents ship fee plus 10 cents Confederate postage to Flat Rock; small portion of backflap missing, Very Fine. Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Run into Wilmington through the Union Blockade by the "Fannie", which docked on January 15, the mails presumably being taken off by the vessels which were run up the Cape Fear River. The Fannie made 3 successful blockade runs into Charleston and 5 into Wilmington.
Realized: $1,200