CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE GENERAL BEAUREGARD BEAT UP BY SCOTT UPHAM PATRIOTIC COVER

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HERE’S AN UNCOMMON CIVIL WAR COMICAL UNION PATRIOTIC COVER DESCRIPTION: The cover features an excellent caricature cachet vignette of a woman and two young boys fighting, one of whom is beat up pretty badly, with the text: “Mary. Why, Johnny, what have you been doing? Johnny. Oh, nothing, Aunt Mary! Joe and I were playing Scott and Beauregard, and I was Beauregard – that’s all!” The cover was printed by “S. C. Upham, 310 Chestnut Street, Phila.,” measures 5½” x 3-1/8," and is in Very Fine Condition, complete with backflap