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Confederate States, Blockade Mail - Incoming, small cover carried by the British blockade-runner Banshee, handstamped "SHIP" with a manuscript "12" (cents due), addressed to "Major Daniel E. Huger, Hendersonville, N. Carolina, C.S. America", postmarked with a partial May 29 Wilmington, N.C. c.d.s. and endorsed "favoured by Capt. Stiles"; top flap missing, repaired tear at the top, Fine. Capt. Stiles would have been a misidentification of Banshee's Capt. Steele, making the year 1863, signed Kimbrough. Estimate $1,500 - 2,000
Banshee made seven successful blockade runs between the Caribbean and Wilmington before she was captured in November 1863. She was purchased by the Navy from the New York Prize Court, converted to a Gunboat and commissioned U.S.S. Banshee in June 1864. She served in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and the Potomac River Flotilla.
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