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Incoming Blockade Cover addressed to "Miss N.P. Barron/ Capt J. Barron Hope/ Qr Mr Gen's Office/ Richmond" with "Wilmington N.C./ 5 Paid/ Dec 8" cds and ms "Due 12", back side with the notation "Forwarded by your friend Wm. B. Reed, Richmond Post Office/ I hope you are well", restored upper left corner, Very Fine appearancernJames Barron Hope (1829-87) was a US, and later Confederate naval officer, acting as a representative in Europe for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Born into a very patriotic family, Mr. Hope»s great-grandfather, the elder James Barron, organized the Virginia Colonial Navy, of which he was commander-in-chief during the Revolutionary War. When Virginia seceded from the union in 1861, Mr. Hope served as the acting quartermaster in Smith»s Battery of Artillery and also with the Confederate War Department. He obtained the rank of Captain and was paroled at the capitulation of Johnston»s Army in 1865 at Greensboro, NC.Sale 3043: United States Postal History and Flight Covers - Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 2 p.m. Eastern