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The first Confederate Postage stamps were issued and placed in circulation on October 16, 1861, five months after postal service between the North and South had been suspended. [9] The first postage stamp issued by the Confederate States (1861) was a 5¢ green depicting Jefferson Davis.
The eight United States postage stamps issued in 1861 pictured Washington (5), Franklin (2) and Jefferson (1), and envelopes signaled the sacredness of the Constitution and rebellion as treason. Confederate stamps pictured Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Jefferson Davis (a stamp was printed depicting John C. Calhoun but was never put into use).
Previous publications of the organization were the Confederate Bulletin, from 1940 to 1952, and the Confederate Stamp Album, from 1956 to 1959, with The Confederate Philatelist starting publication in 1960. CSA Catalog project. In 1929, August Dietz Sr. published The Postal Service of the Confederate States of America.
At the Confederate Stamp Alliance, Frank Crown is on the editorial board of the CSA Catalog project which updated August Dietz’s The Postal Service of the Confederate States of America and re-published it as the Confederate States of America: Catalog and Handbook of Stamps and Postal History (alongside co-authors Jerry S. Palazolo and Trish ...
Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.
Patricia A. Kaufmann. 1947 (age 76–77) Richmond, Virginia, US. Years active. 1965–present. Known for. Expert on postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States of America. Notable work. Editor-in-Chief, 2012 Confederate States of America Catalog and Handbook of Stamps and Postal History.
During the American Civil War both the Union and Confederate governments enacted postal censorship. The number of Union and Confederate soldiers in prisoner of war camps would reach an astonishing one and a half million men. The prison population at the Andersonville Confederate POW camp alone reached 45,000 men by the war's end.
The 1869 Pictorial Issue is a series of definitive United States postage stamps released during the first weeks of the Grant administration. Ten types of stamp in denominations between one cent and ninety cents were initially offered in the series, with eight of these introduced on March 19 and 20, 1869 and the two greatest values being distributed somewhat later.