FREE: 1864 - 150th Civil War Anniversary / Forever Stamps

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The Civil War: 1864 Commemorative Stamp Sheet


These Stamps can be used for First Class Mail, or collection. (Collecting them is better) These self-adhesive stamps are being issued in sheets of 12. Issue Date: July 30, 2014 Director/Designer: Phil Jordan

One stamp depicts the 22nd United States Colored Troops engaged in the June 15-18, 1864, assault on Petersburg, Virginia, at the beginning of the Petersburg Campaign.

The other stamp depicts Admiral David G. Farragut's fleet at the Battle of Mobile Bay (Alabama) on August 5, 1864. Art director Phil Jordan created the stamps using iconic images of the battles. The Petersburg Campaign stamp is a reproduction of a painting, dated 1892, by J. Andr_ Castaigne.
The Battle of Mobile Bay stamp is a reproduction of a painting by Julian Oliver Davidson, published ca. 1886 by Louis Prang & Co. For the background image on the souvenir sheet, Jordan used a photograph of Battery A, 2nd U.S. Colored Artillery, Department of the Cumberland, 1864
( The souvenir sheet includes comments on the war by Ulysses S. Grant, Jeremiah Tate, Harrie Webster, and Howell Cobb. It also includes some of the lyrics from the spiritual "O Mary, Don't You Weep." The Petersburg Campaign and the Battle of Mobile Bay stamps are being issued as Forever® stamps. These stamp sheets are really for collectors – I think that it would be a waste to use them to mail anything. Mint stamps always are worth more than used

These Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate. Made in the USA. Please feel free to see my other auctions – you might like what you see. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!