Original CSA Imprint Envelope ~ Treasurer's Office

Original CSA Imprint Envelope

Treasurer's Office

*This is a highly rare CSA imprint envelope

Various departments of the Confederate government used envelopes which were printed with the names of their department. Examples where the words 'Official Business' occurs are common. The postage stamps and postal system of the Confederate States of America carried the mail of the Confederacy for a brief period in American history.

~ The Confederate States of America ~

The Confederate States of America, commonly referred to as the Confederate States or simply the Confederacy, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in North America that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confederacy comprised U.S. states that declared secession and warred against the United States during the ensuing American Civil War. Eleven U.S. states declared secession from the Union and formed the main part of the CSA. They were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Kentucky and Missouri also had declarations of secession and full representation in the Confederate Congress during their Union army occupation.