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Lot of 7 covers (one with accompanying letters). Mounted as a display, "The Fort Fisher Story," plus one additional. The first is addressed to Colonel Leventhorpe, 11th Bethel Regt., NC, Camp Holmes, near Wilmington, NC. Postal cancel Rutherfordton, NC, on a blue five cent Confederate States stamp at the closure of the envelope on verso. Second postal cancel in upper right on recto of envelope. A British army captain who came to America to prospect for gold before the war, Collett Leventhorpe enlisted as a colonel in October 1861 and was commissioned into the 34th NC Infantry. Five months later, he transferred to the 11th NC. He was wounded at Gettysburg on the first day, and captured on July 5th. He was taken to a Federal Hospital, then sent to Fort McHenry in September. He transferred to Point Lookout in Jan. 1864, and was exchanged shortly after and resigned in April, apparently never having fully recovered from his wounds. There are two letters that may have been in one envelope, addressed to Paymstr C. Lucian Jones, CSA, Battery Buchanan, NC from his wife. The first is a short note dated 26 Dec. 1864 which mostly mentions family and a few friends and their plans to either move or stay put. The second is dated the following day. In this one she mentions that they can hear big guns from where they are. From her comments, it sounds as though she and one set of parents took rooms in a boarding house in Wilmington. Apparently she had also trusted people to deliver the notes, since the envelope is stampless. She notes: Darling if you wish any thing sent down can you not send word by Mr. Carter or some reliable person, can you not send up your soil clothes in the basket or bucket so I can have them ready when you come. I sent all our things off yesterday up to Fayetteville, so that at the last moment I would have nothing to trouble me when I had to leave, Ma sent nothing as she does not expect to leave at all. Poor Brother is still up stairs, Genl. Bragg has gone down to the sound. Pa went to see him but he had left, no one has been here since that night for Brother. Pa was on guard from 2 o’clock this morning until eight. Of course Ma made herself miserable, indeed she sat up until two o’clock so afraid Pa would not be in time and yet miserable about his going they want him our again to night that is too often for an old man like him. The third is a cover only, addressed to "Mr. Malcom Brown Care Capt. Munn, Fort Fisher, NC." According to the consignor, the cover has a "Four margin #12 with bold postmark "Little Rockfish, NC (scarce) Dec. (1863)." Malcom Brown enlisted, at the age of 21, on Nov. 25, 1863 in the 2nd NC artillery, also known as the "Cape Fear Reg't" or "Lamb's Artillery" after their commanding officer. Captain Daniel Munn was a native of Bladen County, NC. He enlisted as soon as war was declared, on the 26th of April 1861. He was commissioned into the 36th NC Infy. in Sept. of that year as captain of Co. B. He took command during the final Battle of Fort Fisher when Colonel Lamb was wounded. He was captured when Fort Fisher fell, being sent to Fort Columbus, NY, then exchanged and paroled two months later (3.5.65). The fourth cover is addressed to Mr. James Evans Starrs Light Battery, Fort Fisher, NC. It has a green five cent Jefferson Davis stamp canceled with hachures. The postmark on the left is from Fayetteville, NC, 10 Apr. Someone wrote "1862" in ink beside the postmark. Joseph Blake Starr enlisted as a 33-year-old captain, also in April 1861. He was commissioned into Co. F, NC 1st Vol. Infy. In November he was commissioned into the NC Light Artillery, and two years later given command of Co. B, 13th Battallion, NC State Troops as lt. colonel. Both Starr and Munn commanded "Light Batteries," also known as "Flying Batteries," of movable guns, often Whitworth rifled cannon, which they could move to the beach to fend off Union ships trying to stop blockade runners, as the guns had a range of 5 - 6 miles. The