ISSUE 174 - June 6, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
100 Years Ago in Mekeel’s:
Postage Stamps of the Confederate States
by L. W. Crouch
(From Mekeel’s Weekly, September 18, 1909 with images added)
Introduction.—Among the most interesting series of postage stamps are those issued by the short-lived Government of the Confederate States of America. They are interesting, historically, as relics of the great American Civil War, which raged for four years, and in which England was so nearly involved. They are also interesting philatelically, as I hope to prove to you in this paper.…
Historical.—One of the causes of the secession of the southern states from the United States was the slavery question… South Carolina was the first state to secede in December, 1860, and was quickly followed by . . .
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