USS Monitor Patriotic Cover, 1865.

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USS Monitor Patriotic Cover, 1865.

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This is a Union cover depicting the US Steam Battery Monitor (Ironclad : 1862). The ship is shown broadside in the configuration it had during the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862. This design is very similar to number 614 in The George Walcott Collection of Used Civil War Patriotic Covers. It is a brown design. The envelope was sent to Vernon Depot, CT from Washington DC and bears a 3-cent stamp from 1865.

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The Mariners' Museum Library

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Mariners' museum Newport News, Va.

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In 2005, the Library created an artificial collection of several David G. Farragut letters owned by the Museum, which had mostly been accessioned prior to 1941. The accession numbers for these individual letters were the following: CA1, CA4, CA5, CA7, CA8, CA25, and CA54. From the description of Collection of David G. Farragut documents, 1861-1864. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 775010556 ...