1862 US CIVIL WAR COVER to Union Sailor Aboard SS CONSTITUTION, Fancy Cancel #65

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1862 US CIVIL WAR COVER to Union Sailor Aboard SS CONSTITUTION, Fancy Cancel #65 1862 US CIVIL WAR COVER to Union Sailor Aboard SS CONSTITUTION, Fancy Cancel #65 Addressed to a Lieutenant J.M.G. Parker, Steamer Constitution, Boston Harbor in 1862.The Pacific Mail Steamship Company (SS) Steamship / Steamer Constitution (1861–1879) was launched on May 25, 1861. She was chartered to the War Department in 1861–1862. In 1862 she sailed from New York for San Francisco. She sailed from then on between San Francisco and Panama City from 1862 to June 1869. She was scrapped at San Francisco in 1879.The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was established to carry US mail on the Pacific leg of a transcontinental route via Panama. President James K. Polk brought the Oregon Territory into the Union in 1846. Developing and maintaining the new land required the development of faster transportation and communications between the eastern seaboard and the remote northwest so federal subsidies were provided for a private shipping companies to build steamers for the route.The federal mail subsidy program served a second objective: the establishment of civilian steamships which could be easily converted to warships or privateers during times of war.During the American Civil War detachments of Union soldiers sailed with Pacific Mail steamers to protect them against the threat from the Confederate Navy's commerce raiders' plots to seize steamships for their precious gold and silver mined cargo. General McDowell commanded Steamer Constitution during the Civil War. All officers were armed for the protection of their ships and each passenger on board American merchant steamers had surrender all weapons when boarding the ship and every passenger and their baggage was searched. Click to edit text Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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