SB Nashville, Nashville and New Orleans Packet. Elaborate handstamp in red with delicate lettering and designs in oval, on buff cover to Lafayette Ky., endorsed "Nashville" at upper left and "care Brannon & Weeks, Tobacco Port" at lower left, with original part-printed Prices Current with manuscript dateline "New Orleans Jany 4th 1850", some slight wear

VERY FINE. THIS NEWLY DISCOVERED STEAMBOAT MARKING IS UNIQUE. A MARVELOUS WATERWAY COVER.

The Nashville & New Orleans Packet steamers navigated the waters of the Mississippi and Cumberland Rivers, leaving New Orleans every Tuesday at 4 p.m. and returning from Nashville every Saturday at 4 p.m. One of the vessels was the Nashville, a 497-ton sidewheel steamboat captained by Thomas Bellanyder. She was launched in 1849 at New Albany, Indiana. At the outbreak of the Civil War she was converted to a hospital ship of the same name. Her two decks accommodated 1,000 casualties.

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