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“Envelope Showing Confederate Flag, Addressed to Miss Lou Taylor, No. 461 Sixth St., Cincinnati, Ohio” [ca. 1861-1865]
Patriotic stationery flourished in the Union and Confederacy alike, allowing partisans on both sides to affirm their political loyalties whenever they wrote a letter. This interesting envelope bears the image of the Confederacy’s first national flag, but the recipient lived in Ohio.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress