Phoebe Yates Pember.... On June 29, 1995, the USPS
honored Phoebe
Yates Pember, in the Civil War series of 20 stamps, for her
outstanding contribution to nursing in the Confederacy.
Shown here is a genuine First Day
Cover, an envelope with the stamp cancelled from the city of issue (Gettysburg,
PA) on the first day of issue
captioned above.
Collectible,
historic, and pristine, this cover features a beautiful colored photo cachet (artwork on the
envelope) of Phoebe Pember with smaller pictures of the hospital in
which she worked during the Civil War, Robert E. Lee, and several
pictures of wounded Confederate soldiers. The company that produced
this cover has also written a brief commentary about this remarkable
woman who wrote an account of her wartime nursing experiences in her
memoirs, "A Southern Woman's Story", rated as "one of the very best
Confederate memoirs."
Double matted
in blue and white, this piece is sized
to fit a standard 8x10 frame. ***Certificate of Authenticity plus
Commentary Included*** |
