US Postal Service Civil War Stamps

In 1995, the US Postal Service issued a block of 20 first-class letter stamps with the theme "Civil War, 1861-1865, The War Between the States". A large [abt 180 Kb GIF] image of these stamps can be found at the US Postal Service's WWW Server [Civil War Stamp Graphic]

The following stamps are included in the set [left to right, top to bottom when you are looking at the photo side of the stamp]. The back of each stamp (gummed side) has a short description of the subject.

Row 1

Monitor & Virginia (Merrimack)
Confederate General Robert Edward Lee
Union Nurse Clara Harlowe Barton
Union Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant
Shiloh

Row 2

President of the Confederacy Jefferson Finus Davis
Union Vice Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
Journalist-Orator Frederick Douglass
Confederate Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes
16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln

Row 3

Abolitionist Harriet Ross Tubman
Confederate Brig. General Stand Watie (De-ga-do-ga)
Confederte General Joseph Eggleston Johnston
Union Major General Winfield Scott Hancock
Confederate Diarist Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut

Row 4

Chancellorsville
Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman
Confederate Nurse Phoebe Yates Levy Pember
Confederate Lt. General Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Gettysburg

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