Lot Details

manuscript postmark on cover from Liverpool to Macon, Georgia via Nassau and Wilmington, addressed to "Col. James H. Burton, Superintendent of Armories, Macon, Geo'a", "Exd" Provost Marshal's censor marking applied at Wilmington, pencil "Recd. July 13th, J.H.B.", very fine and rare blockade run cover from the Burton correspondence, this cover was carried by Cunard's Persia from Liverpool to New York, then by Cunard's Corsica to Nassau, and finally by blockade-runner Will of the Wisp departing Nassau May 26 and arriving Wilmington May 30, ex-Walske