Lot of 92 patriotic covers. The majority are unused and bear illustrations of patriotic symbols, slogans, and cartoons representing both the Union and the Confederacy, dating approximately 1861-1865.

Themes include preservation of the Union, slavery, and secession, as well as personalities such as Robert Anderson, Benjamin F. Butler, Jefferson Davis, John C. Frémont, Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan, and Louis Wigfall.  Among the collection's highlights are a composite cover featuring ten scenes from the "Uncle Sam's House" series; a "Stars and Bars" flag cover promoting "Jeff. Davis, Prest. / Alexr H. Stephens. Vice Prest." of the Confederate States of America; a topsy-turvy Jefferson Davis cover, showing the president's countenance before and after the war; a cover printed with text adapted from "The Kite; or The Fall of Pride," an eighteenth-century poem, produced by Samuel C. Upham, a journalist and counterfeiter of Confederate currency; a Mumford imprint cover entitled "'Wait 'Till the War is Over,'" showing two mercantile scenes divided by "Mason & Dixon's Line"; and a cover farcically depicting the state of Virginia as a cat, whose tail is being sawed off by a simian Jefferson Davis. Also with plain cover mailed in North Carolina with affixed three-cent revenue stamp and wedge circle cancellation.