addressed to Newton, Mass., with "Due 10" charged, 10c dark green added and tied by "Steamship Cts" cancel, fine and rare in every respect (soon after the Civil War began, "Bainbridge" was sent to the Gulf of Mexico to enforce the blockade of the Confederacy and to protect United States shipping. While in that area in May and June 1862, she participated in the capture of three blockade runners. Following a brief trip north, Bainbridge returned to the Gulf area in August 1862. She encountered a damaging storm at Aspinwall, New Granadine (a short-lived federal republic established in 1858 as a result of a constitutional change replacing the Republic of New Granada. It consisted of the present-day nations of Colombia and Panama and parts of northwestern Brazil. In turn, the Granadine Confederation was replaced by the United States of Colombia after yet another constitutional change in 1863)