Back in 2007 a similar cover addressed to the same individual was sold and shown at this link. I thought this quote on the historical information they uncovered might be interesting to post here:
Quote:
The cover has the title Company C, 4th Battalion Rifles, Boston and the seal of the 13th REGIMENT / MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS . It is addressed in period ink handwriting to Mr Levi Liscom / No. 16 Carver St / Boston. ... The writer was likely Albert M. Liscom, a soldier in Company C, 13th Massachusetts Infantry per the National Archives Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System. The 13th Massachusetts was organized at Fort Independence, Massachusetts, on June 16, 1861, and mustered out on August 1, 1864. The regiment was in most major engagements in the Eastern Theater including Harpers Ferry, 2nd Manassas, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness-Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. Regimental losses totaled 161 including four officers and 117 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 40 enlisted men lost by disease.
Here's the link if you want to see the other cover:
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...postal-cover
Posted 12/28/2007 9:37 pm
Very cool.
