From the April 24th Sacramento (Ca) Bee "U.S. Postal Service Commemorates the 150th Civil War Anniversary."
Two new "Forever Stamps" (that seems to be the new thing for the post office, you hear about them everywhere. Try to eat in a Taco Bell and not hear it ten times.) have been introduced featuring two major April events, the Battles of New Orleans and Antietam.
The First-Day-of-Issue ceremony took place at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans (OK, I get the New Orleans connection, but, still World War II? for the Civil War? Should have been a Civil War Museum or perhaps the Antietam Battlefield.) Of course, this is also the 70th anniversary of that war.
The New Orleans stamps features a reproduction of a very colorful Currier & Ives lithograph.
The Antietam one is a reproduction of an 1887 painting by Thure de Thulstrong.
Guess I'll Have to Go Out and Buy Me Some. --Old Secesh
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