New Stamps Commemorate Civil War

The Postal Service has issued the second of an annual series of Forever stamps commemorating the Civil War.
The two stamps — The Civil War: 1862 — depict the Battle of New Orleans, the first significant achievement of the U.S. Navy in the war, and the Battle of Antietam.
The Navy’s victory in New Orleans placed the Confederacy’s most vital port in Union hands. “As a result, Southern trade, finance and shipbuilding were greatly disrupted,” he said. “Five months later came the bloodiest single day of the Civil War — and, in fact, the bloodiest one-day battle in American history — the Battle of Antietam.”