Photo of Civil War envelope,sailor climbing flagpole,American flag,poem,c1861

Title: [Civil War envelope showing sailor climbing up flagpole to American flag with lines from poem]
Related Names:
Drake, Joseph Rodman, 1795-1820.
Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865]
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Addressed to Miss Adelia Fries, Philadelphia, No. 931 No[r]th Tenth Street; postmarked [Alex]andria, Va.; bears 3 cent stamp. Notation at bottom of envelope: Wm. Birney, Maj., 4 [?] Regt., N.J. Vols.
Lines from poem The American Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake: Flag of the free heart's hope and home, by angel hands to valor given; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, and all thy hues were born in heaven.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
Subjects:
Birney, William,--1819-1907--Associated objects.
United States.--Army.--New Jersey Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865)
Flags--American--1860-1870.
Sailors--1860-1870.
Poetry--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
Patriotic envelopes--1860-1870.
Prints--1860-1870.
Stamps--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2011648571/
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