CIVIL WAR LETTER w STAMPLESS COVER SOMERSET KENTUCKY POSTMARK 1864
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This Civil War letter with stampless cover was mailed on February 25, 1864 from Point Isabelle Kentucky. The letter was sent to "Mr. Horace A. Follett Diamond Hill Plain, Cumberland, Rhode Island. The letter was written by Hartford Alexander Company 3 of the Rhode Island Volunteers. In the letter Alexander talks about a "Flag raising here and speech was made by General Fry it was very handsome it was presented by the ladies of Somerset..." The Rhode Island Volunteers were under the command of Gneral Burnside. The letter and envelope are both in very good condition! NO RESERVE!General Burnside Island State Park has the distinction of being the only island park in the Kentucky system. The park, formerly known as Bunker Hill, joined the Kentucky Parks System on February 3, 1958. In an unusual instance, the United States Army deeded the 390-acre island to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in fee simple. Most of the state park lands that the federal government has turned over to the state involved a lease agreement. Located eight miles south of Somerset in Pulaski County, the park is surrounded by Lake Cumberland and is accessible by a causeway.For many years the sparsely settled area did not have a name. The North Carolinians, who settled there around 1800, began to call their community Point Isabel. An old and unsubstantiated legend relates
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