Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States
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Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States
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The postage stamps and postal system of the Confederate States of America carried the mail of the Confederacy for a brief period in U.S. history. Early in 1861 when South Carolina no longer considered itself part of the Union and demanded that the U.S. Army abandon Fort Sumter, plans for a Confederate postal system were already underway. Indeed, the Confederate Post Office was established on February 21, 1861; and it was not until April 12 that the American Civil War officially began, when the C
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_Confederate_States
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2004-02-26T07:26:17Z
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2024-09-08T10:36:44Z
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