Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps: Difference between revisions

President Jefferson Davis had appointed [[John Henninger Reagan]] on March 6, 1861, to head the new Confederate States of America Post-office Department. The United States Post Office Department continued to handle the mail of the seceded states until June 1 when the Confederate Post office took over collection and delivery throughout the Confederacy, remaining in operation for the duration of the Civil War.<ref>"History of the Confederate States Post Office Service". [http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmailus2b.htm New York Times; about.com]{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Viewed January 31, 2014.</ref> The most immediate concerns of the Confederate postmaster general was the organization of his department and providing for the payment of postage so that it would become self-financing. While the recalled U.S. postage could no longer be used to carry the mail by the U.S. Post Office, the Confederacy did use "appropriated" United States postal stationery for some time. General Reagan claimed he never conferred official authority on postmasters to issue interim, "provisional" stamps, but they filled a need in the absence of national Confederate stamps (which were not issued until October, 1861) and stamped envelopes.<ref>Benjamin, Maynard H., [http://postalmuseum.si.edu/industrywhitepapers/EMA_History.pdf The History of Envelopes] 2002, Envelope Manufacturers Association and EMA Foundation for Paper-Based Communications. p. 16. viewed February 22, 2014.</ref>

* [[Eli Whitney]] invented interchangeable parts in rifled musket manufacture for the Union and supervised machinery in Connecticut.<ref>"Whitney, Eli." Webster's Guide to American History" 1971. op.cit. p. 1324.</ref> Field blacksmiths could salvage unbroken parts from a battlefield for immediate reissue in Union armies. Whitney's technological gift was equally crucial to the Confederacy: his invention of the cotton gin transformed cotton into a viable commercial product, fostering an enormous growth of the Southern slave-based agricultural economy through which the C. S. A. hoped to thrive as a self-sufficient nation.<ref>[http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3497 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Eli Whitney in Georgia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405160012/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3497 |date=2013-04-05 }}. Accessed March 6, 2014.</ref> 1940 issue. {{clear}}

* Dodson, Larry (2006). [http://americantopicalassn.org/pdf/pr/061004-CivilWar.pdf A Philatelic Tour of the American Civil War (also known as the War between the States)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030215/http://americantopicalassn.org/pdf/pr/061004-CivilWar.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }}. ATA Handbook 155. Arlington, TX: American Topical Association. Single and multiple battles, one hundred Confederate and Union men with biographies. Transportation section identifies trains, ships and even an ambulance. Flags, uniforms and places are followed by a section of literature and films, composers, authors, poets and sculptors that reflect some aspect of the Civil War.