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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC Sale: 770

Union Civil War Postal History
Prisoner of War Covers, Northern Prisons
Tennessee
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 198
Symbol: C
Cat No: Fort Donelson

image Fort Donelson - Tenn., Cover from Lt. Henry L. Muldrow [Co. C, 14th Miss. Infantry] to his wife at Tibbee Station, "Mobile & Ohio R.R.", Miss.; Muldrow's letter traveled down the Tennessee River to Burnsville, Miss. where it entered C.S.A. mails about Feb. 23rd (partial Burnsville c.d.s. with the stamp missing); it went from Burnsville to Tibbee Station on the Mobile & Ohio R.R.; censor's manuscript "Examined by, Lt. H. Wilson, 20th Regt, 0.V.U.S.A."; top flap sewn shut with brown thread; edge wear, Fine to Very Fine. The only recorded P.O.W. usage from here; and the only one with a sewn flap.


Prisoners were held several days at Fort Donelson before being sent farther north. (Image)

Estimate $1,500-1,800

Opening US$ 750.00


Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:40:42 EST
Sold For 0

Sale No: 770
Lot No: 199
Symbol: C
Cat No: Knoxville

image Knoxville Prison - Knoxville, Tenn., Inside envelope from some point in the South "Per Flag of truce" to Rev Timothy Sullins, a "citizen prisoner" in the Knoxville prison; franked with a 3¢ rose - uncancelled and sent "Care of J.S. Van Gilder & Co."; manuscript Confederate censor's marking on the back "P.M. Hd. Qrs., Bristol T. July 18, 64, Examined & Appd., W.C. Kain, Capt & P.M.", Very Fine. The only recorded P.O.W. correspondence to or from this prison.


Sullins was a Methodist Minister at Athens, Tenn.; notice of his incarceration as a hostage appeared in the Richmond Daily Dispatch on July 22, 1864. J.S. Van Gilder was a manufacturer, banker, postmaster and Mayor of Knoxville. (Image)

Estimate $1,800-2,000

Opening US$ 900.00


Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:41:03 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 200
Symbol: C
Cat No: Nashville Penitentiary

image Tennessee State Penitentiary - Nashville, Tenn., Cover from Pvt. Walter S. Ryall [Co. B, 1st Tenn. Infantry] to his father at Shelbyville, Tenn.; 3¢ rose tied by a partial (Nashvi)lle, Tenn. target duplex, Jul 12, 1863; examiner's manuscript "Prisoners Letter, Approved Joel A. Fife Lt., Com. Military Prison, Nashville, Tenn. Per Graham O.S." reduced slightly at the right, Fine.


THE ONLY RECORDED P.O.W. CORRESPONDENCE TO OR FROM THIS PRISON.

Ryall was here only two weeks. In the included original letter Ryall writes, "Penitentiary life is rather confining" and asks, "Do the negros still stay contentedly on the farm?" . (Image)

Estimate $1,800-2,000

Opening US$ 900.00


Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:41:16 EST
Sold For 0
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