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Union Civil War Postal History Prisoner of War Covers, Northern Prisons New York
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 115
Symbol: C
Cat No: Elmira Prison
Elmira Prison - Elmira, N.Y., Adversity cover, made from a used, partly-printed business form, sent through the lines with a 3¢ rose tied by a circle-of-wedges cancel alongside an Old Point Comfort c.d.s., Aug 14 (1864), addressed to Brooklyn, L.I., New York; enclosed letter from Ellen C. Hinton, datelined "Near Petersburg, July 29th 1864", asking a friend to locate her nephew, R.B. Willcox, who had been missing since June 16; forwarded by the friend to the P.O.W. at Elmira with this docketing on the reverse: "R.B. Wilcox, Barracks No. 3, Ward 20., Prison Camp, Elmira NY & Care of Major H.V. Colt", Very Fine. (Image)
Estimate $400-600
Opening US$ 450.00
Sold...US$ 450.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:03:06 EST
Sold For 450
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 116
Symbol: C
Cat No: Elmira Prison
Elmira Prison - Elmira, N.Y., Cover from Pvt. G.P.W. Davis, a P.O.W. at Elmira, to Edward G. Booth, of Philadelphia; slightly damaged 3¢ rose tied by an Elmira c.d.s., Nov 8 (1864); mostly clear Examined oval handstamp; includes the original letter datelined Nov 4, in which Davis tells Booth that he is "entirely destitute" and asks him, "To Ade me with the help of a Dollar or two" and "I received your name from a friend of this place", Very Fine. (Image)
Estimate $200-300
Opening US$ 190.00
Sold...US$ 190.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:03:36 EST
Sold For 190
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 117
Symbol: C
Cat No: Elmira Prison
Elmira Prison - Elmira, N.Y., Cover from an unidentified P.O.W. at Elmira to B[enjamin] S. Hedrick, of Washington; D.C., 3¢ rose is tied by an Elmira, c.d.s., Jun 2, 1865; mostly clear Elmira Examined oval handstamp, Very Fine. Hedrick, a clerk at the U.S. Patent Office, and native of North Carolina, was known to aid prisoners in distress. (Image)
Estimate $250-350
Opening US$ 150.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:03:55 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 118
Symbol: C
Cat No: Elmira Prison
Elmira Prison - Elmira, N.Y., Cover from Pvt. Mial Wall [3rd N.C. Artillery], to Dr. R.J. Powell of Washington, D.C.; a 3¢ rose is tied by an Elmira, c.d.s., Apr 14, 1865 9year slug upside down; partial Examined oval handstamp; includes the original letter to Dr. Powell, who was known for his willingness to aid prisoners in need, in part "Cousin James P. Leake of Rockingham, Richmond Co. N.C. wrote to me and gave me your name and address. He said he knew you and believed if I wrote to you that you would help me."(Image)
Estimate $200-300
Opening US$ 170.00
Sold...US$ 170.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:04:21 EST
Sold For 170
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 119
Symbol: C
Cat No: Elmira Prison
Elmira Prison - Elmira, N.Y., Cover to Anthony M. Keiley at Elmira, from J. Hume Burnley, chargé d'affaires of Great Britain, in Washington, D.C.; 3¢ rose tied by Washington c.d.s., Sep 23 (1864) with a partial Examined oval handstamp; endorsed "paid, J H Burnley" at the upper left with an intact red wax seal of the British Legation on the flap; included is a Carte de Visite photo of the prison camp at Elmira by Moulton & Larkin, Elmira photographers, Fine.
Lt. Keiley was injured at the Battle of Malvern Hill in 1862. After recovering from his wounds, he joined Lee during the Gettysburg Campaign before resigning his commission to join the Virginia House of Delegates. He was captured - as a civilian - by Union forces near Petersburg in June 1864. when "every able-bodied man" was called to repel Union attack led by Gen. Benjamin Butler.
At Elmira, Keiley kept the Book of the Dead. He later wrote In Vinculius, the Prisoner of War by a Virginia Confederate. After the war, he founded a newspaper, was elected Mayor of Richmond, and was named by President Grover Cleveland to diplomatic posts in both Italy and Austria-Hungary. (Image)
Estimate $250-350
Opening US$ 250.00
Sold...US$ 250.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:05:11 EST
Sold For 250
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 120
Symbol: C
Cat No: Elmira Prison
Elmira Prison - Elmira, N.Y., Cover from an unidentified P.O.W. at Elmira to Rev. J.M. MacDonald, Pastor First Presbn. Ch., Princeton, N.J.; 3¢ rose is tied by an Elmira, c.d.s.,Aug 1, 1864; mostly clear Elmira Examined oval handstamp, Fine to Very Fine. The earliest recorded P.O.W. usage from Elmira. (Image)
Estimate $250-350
Opening US$ 160.00
Sold...US$ 160.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:05:42 EST
Sold For 160
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 121
Symbol: C
Cat No: Elmira Prison
Elmira Prison - Elmira, N.Y., Folded letter from Obediah W. Singleton dated Nov 28, 1864, to Mrs. Catherine Grim & Mrs. M.E. Fleet at Winchester, Va.; 3¢ rose tied by a Nov 30 Elmira c.d.s. with a mostly clear Examined oval handstamp; no Confederate postage necessary; Winchester was in Union bands at this time; the writer tells Mrs. Grim that her husband, Theopholis, "is well and hearty as a buck.", Fine to Very Fine. (Image)
Estimate $350-500
Opening US$ 180.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:06:03 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 122
Symbol: C
Cat No: Elmira Prison
Elmira Prison - Elmira, N.Y., Cover to John B. Ladd, a P.O.W. at Elmira; 3¢ rose tied by a partial Richmond duplex, Jun 6 (1865), with an incomplete Examined oval handstamp; left flap missing, otherwise Fine. The latest recorded usage to the Elmira prison. (Image)
Estimate $200-300
Opening US$ 100.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:06:16 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 123
Symbol: C
Cat No: Elmira Prison
Elmira Prison - Elmira, N.Y., Cover from Cpl. James F.R. Clapp to his wife and family in Alamance Post Office, Guilford Co., N.C.; franked with a 3¢ rose tied by an Elmira, c.d.s., Aug 9, 1864, with an Aug 24 Richmond c.d.s. and handstamped "DUE 10" for C.S.A. postage; partial Elmira Examined oval handstamp (PWH-19); includes original, semi-literate letter on the back of which Clapp has noted, "We Can Pay the Postage her. i have no stamps to send you. Rite. [Write]"; cover reduced just a tad at the top with top flap missing, otherwise Very Fine. Fewer than 100 P.O.W. covers from Elmira are recorded; this is the earliest reported one that crossed the lines, signed Kimbrough. (Image)
Estimate $500-600
Opening US$ 250.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:06:39 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 124
Symbol: C
Cat No: Elmira Prison
Elmira Prison - Elmira, N.Y., Cover from an unidentified P.O.W. to Baltimore tobacco manufacturers, Gail & Ax; 3¢ rose tied by an Elmira c.d.s., Aug 8, 1864, with a clear Elmira Examined oval handstamp; two vertical file folds, mounting remnant on reverse, otherwise Very Fine. (Image)
Estimate $200-300
Opening US$ 100.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:06:54 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 125
Symbol: C
Cat No: NY City Tombs Prison
The Tombs Prison - New York City, Hand-carried cover to John Harleston, Executive Officer of the Savannah, a Confederate Privateer; addressed to simply "Mr. Harleston, No 6, New Prison" to which someone along the way added "Tombs NY" ["New Prison" being another name by which the prison was known]. Included is a likeness of the original letter, which now resides in the South Carolina Historical Society. It is datelined New York, Dec 20th, 1861, and is from Sabina Wells, formerly of Charleston, S.C. detailing personal loss from the so-called Great Charleston Fire of 1861, Fine to Very Fine. Only five Tombs P.O.W. covers are recorded.
When the Savannah was captured in June 1861, Harleston was tried as a pirate and confined in Tombs Prison. (Image)
Estimate $600-800
Opening US$ 300.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:07:18 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 126
Symbol: C
Cat No: NY Harbor Castle Williams
Castle Williams - Governor's Island, New York Harbor, Rare "Official Business" envelope from the Chief Clerk of the U.S. War Department, with the authorizing signature of John Potts, who held that position; addressed to "Wm. H Wilson, Prisoner of War, Governor's Island, New York", with a clear Washington, D.C. c.d.s., Jun 28, 1862; Wilson had requested a special exchange to tend to a wounded brother — his request was denied; horizontal file fold across bottom, reduced just a tad at the right, Very Fine. 12 such covers are recorded. (Image)
Estimate $1,000-1,300
Opening US$ 700.00
Sold...US$ 700.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:07:50 EST
Sold For 700
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 127
Symbol: C
Cat No: NY Harbor Castle Williams
Castle Williams - Governor's Island, New York Harbor, Letter only from Pvt. Timothy D. Padgett, [Co. G, 6th Carolina infantry], datelined Governor's Island, New York Harbor, Oct 24, 1864; to a Mrs. Harriet Miller requesting "a few dollars" for "buying cheese, pies and other articles of food…and I could invest a few dimes very advantageously.", Very Fine. (Image)
Estimate $500-750
Opening US$ 250.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:08:11 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 128
Symbol: C
Cat No: NY Harbor Castle Williams
Castle Williams - Governor's Island, New York Harbor, Cover from P.O.W., Pvt. John A. Deakin [26th N.C. Infantry], to Dr. George Kirkman, St. Lawrence, Chatham Co. N.C.; franked with a 3¢ rose tied by a New York target duplex, May 8 (1862); entered the C.S.A. mails at Petersburg, Va. with a blue May 23 Petersburg c.d.s. and matching "DUE" (type H) & "5" (type J); Enclosure, datelined "14th June 1862 Castle Williams Fort Columbus, N.Y.H.", mentions Dr. Kirkman's son, a fellow prisoner, in part, "Trusting this will find you and family well as it leaves me and Preston enjoying tolerable health.", Very Fine. Only 17 Castle Williams P.O.W. covers are recorded. (Image)
Estimate $1,200-1,500
Opening US$ 800.00
Sold...US$ 800.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:08:26 EST
Sold For 800
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 129
Symbol: C
Cat No: NY Harbor Castle Williams
Castle Williams - Governor's Island, New York Harbor, Flag of Truce over from P.O.W., Pvt. J.L. Rowntree [1st Ga. Infantry], to his mother in Lowndes Co. Ga.; 3¢ rose tied by two strikes New York target duplex, May 1 (1862); entered the C.S.A. mails at Petersburg, Va. with a blue May 23 Petersburg c.d.s. and matching "DUE" & "10" (types H/K) for Confederate postage for over 500 miles; stain at the bottom, Fine. Only 17 Castle Williams P.O.W. covers are recorded, signed J.M. Bartels. (Image)
Estimate $1,000-1,300
Opening US$ 600.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:08:44 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 130
Symbol: C
Cat No: NY Harbor Fort Columbus
Fort Columbus - Governor's Island, New York Harbor, Cover from Capt. Samuel Barron, C.S.N, a P.O.W. at Fort Columbus; sent through the lines to his daughter in Richmond, entered the C.S.A. mails at Norfolk, Va. with a blue Norfolk c.d.s., Sep 13 (1861) and matching handstamped "PAID 10", Fine to Very Fine. The earliest of just three recorded covers from this prison. (Image)
Estimate $1,000-1,300
Opening US$ 500.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:08:59 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 131
Symbol: C
Cat No: NY Harbor Fort Columbus
Fort Columbus - Governor's Island, New York Harbor, Cover addressed to "Captain Samuel Barron, C.S.N. [Navy], Prisoner of War, Fort Columbus, Governor's Island, New York"; franked with a 3¢ 1857 tied by an Old Point Comfort, Va. c.d.s., Sep 22 (1861); stamp slightly damaged, Fine to Very Fine. The only recorded P.O.W. cover to Fort Columbus. (Image)
Estimate $1,000-1,300
Opening US$ 500.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:09:15 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 132
Symbol: C
Cat No: NY Harbor Fort Woods
Fort Woods - Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor, Cover from a P.O.W. at Fort Woods, Bedloe' s Island through Kinston, N.C. to Rome, Ga.; franked with a pair of 5¢ blue local prints tied by a Kinston c.d.s., Jan 24 (1864); New York censor's manuscript "Exd. G.P.J." by Surgeon George P. Jaquette, and C.S.A. censor's "Exd RCB." by Maj. Richard C. Badger, 45th N.C. Infantry, near Kinston; sealed opening tear at the bottom, Fine. One of only two recorded covers from here. (Image)
Estimate $1,200-1,500
Opening US$ 700.00
Sold...US$ 700.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:09:29 EST
Sold For 700
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 133
Symbol: C
Cat No: NY Harbor Fort Woods
Fort Woods - Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor, Cover from Lt. J.H. Chappell [23rct N.C. Infantry], a P.O.W. at Fort Woods, to his brother in Kinston, N.C.; sent as an "inside" cover in Flag of Truce mail, entering the C.S.A. mails at Kinston, with a 5¢ blue London print tied by one of two strikes of a Kinston c.d.s., Jan 29 (1864), with manuscript "Exd. G.P.J" by Surgeon George P. Jaquette, Provost Marshal on duty in New York, and "Exd S.J.C." in Kinston; local delivery overpaid by 3¢, Fine. One of only two recorded covers from here. (Image)
Estimate $1,200-1,500
Opening US$ 650.00
Sold...US$ 650.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:09:55 EST
Sold For 650
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 134
Symbol: C
Cat No: NY Harbor Hart's Island
Hart's Island - New York Harbor, Mourning cover to James M. Morey, [32nd Tenn. Infantry], a P.O.W. on Hart's Island; franked with a 3¢ rose tied by a weak New York duplex, May 1865; cover reduced slightly at the right, Very Fine.
Included is the original letter datelined Jersey City, May 11, 1865, from Morey's mother who is visiting the East from Franklin, Tenn., beginning the process of getting him released by taking the oath of allegiance. At the end of the letter she writes of conditions in Tennessee, "A blight seems to over spread the land; a hopelessness for the future, which they have not the energy to throw off." . (Image)
Estimate $800-1,000
Opening US$ 400.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:10:21 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 135
Symbol: C
Cat No: NY Harbor Hart's Island
Hart's Island - New York Harbor, Cover to James M. Morey, [32nd Tenn. Infantry], a P.O.W. on Hart's Island; franked with a somewhat damaged 3¢ rose tied by a Nashville, Tenn. target duplex, Apr 25 (1865), Fine. One of only 22 recorded Hart's Island Prison covers—the prison was in operation for only four months.
Morey's mother enclosed a clipping from a N.Y. paper that makes conditions for prisoners on the island sound almost idyllic, in part, "The rations received by the rebels is about the same as furnished our own soldiers, and consists of fresh beef boiled, bread and soup. The principal pastime. consists of whittling out gutta percha rings inlaying them with silver, making fans and screens, all of which they sell for sufficient money to procure tobacco and other luxuries." . (Image)
Estimate $750-1,000
Opening US$ 400.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:10:37 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 136
Symbol: C
Cat No: NY Harbor Hart's Island
Hart's Island - New York Harbor, Cover to James M. Morey, [32nd Tenn. Infantry], a P.O.W. on Hart's Island; franked with a 3¢ rose tied by a quartered cork cancel alongside a red Boston, Mass. c.d.s., Jun 9 (1865); lower left corner of cover slightly nicked, Fine to Very Fine.
Included is the original letter datelined Walden, Mass., June 9, 1865, from Morey's mother who relays the good news that she has just received the official form for the release of prisoners of war. Then she passes along the bad news that she had had her purse snatched as she was boarding the train in Boston. In it was "$30.00 and a business paper worth six hundred." She thinks she "can prevent the rogue using the paper, and perhaps catch him by the same attempt."
Also included is a small newspaper clipping noting that "The Commissary General of Prisoners is overwhelmed with applications for the discharge of rebel prisoners of war upon taking the oath" . (Image)
Estimate $800-1,000
Opening US$ 400.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:10:51 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 137
Symbol: C
Cat No: Pelham David's Island
DeCamp General Hospital, David's Island - Pelham, N.Y., Cover carried aboard the Blockade runner Antonica into Wilmington, N.C.; from Lt. J.H. Chapell [23rd N.C. Infantry], a P.O.W. at DeCamp General Hospital, to his brother at Kinston, N.C.; part paid with a single 5¢ blue London print, tied by a partial Wilmington c.d.s., Oct 4 (1863); endorsed "Fort Fisher, N.C., W Lamb, Col." to certify the usage as "Soldier's due"; censored manuscript "Exd HS", Very Fine. The only recorded blockade run P.O.W. cover - and one of only 12 recorded covers from David's Island.
The Antonica, a British sidewheel steamer, was run aground in December 1863 and 43 of her crew were captured. (Image)
Estimate $1,200-1,500
Opening US$ 850.00
Sold...US$ 850.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:11:21 EST
Sold For 850
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 138
Symbol: C
Cat No: Pelham David's Island
DeCamp General Hospital, David's Island - Pelham, N.Y., Cover from Sgt. J.L. Warlick, Co. B, 11th N.C. Regt, wounded at Gettysburg and confined at DeCamp General Hospital; to Linville River, N.C.; franked with a target-canceled 3¢ rose alongside a Pelham, N.Y. c.d.s., Aug 6 (1863); entered the C.S.A. mails at Richmond with an Aug 25 c.d.s. and a handstamped "DUE 10"; stamp with a nicked corner, otherwise Very Fine. One of just 12 recorded covers from here. (Image)
Estimate $1,000-1,300
Opening US$ 500.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:11:39 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 139
Symbol: C
Cat No: Cavalry
Flag of Truce Boat New York - At Anchor, City Point, Va., Cover and letter from Capt. Jonathan J. Miller [12th Regt. Mo. State Guards (Cavalry)]; letter, datelined City Point, Va., May 5th 1864, was written as Capt. Miller, still aboard the New York, was waiting to be turned over to Confederate authorities.; cover franked with a 3¢ rose tied by a segmented cork cancel alongside a neat May 10 Old Point Comfort, Va. c.d.s.; letter with some reinforced splitting, Very Fine, One of two recorded from the New York, both from Miller to Miss Burd.
In the letter, to Miss Mary E. Burd in St. Louis, Miller writes, "We arrived here last evening at sun set, cast anchor and are now awaiting arrival of our boat to take us up to Richmond." . (Image)
Estimate $350-500
Opening US$ 180.00
Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:11:53 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 140
Symbol: C
Cat No: Cavalry
Flag of Truce Boat New York - Off Baltimore, Md., Cover and letter from Capt. Jonathan J. Miller [12th Regt. Mo. State Guards (Cavalry)]; letter, datelined "Steam.Ship, nhy, New-York. Off Baltimore, Md., April 25th 1864", was written as Capt. Miller was being transferred from Johnson's Island to Point Lookout prior to his parole; cover franked with a 3¢ rose tied by a neat segmented cork cancel alongside a May 2 Old Point Comfort, Va. c.d.s.; top flap missing, Very Fine, One of two recorded from the New York, both from Miller to Miss Burd.
In the letter, to Miss Mary E. Burd in St. Louis, Miller expresses hopes of going directly to City Point/Point Lookout, Va., but he was instead taken to Point Lookout's Hammond Hospital, where he spent eight days. (Image)
