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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC Sale: 770

Union Civil War Postal History
Prisoner of War Covers, Northern Prisons
Wisconsin
Sale No: 770
Lot No: 217
Symbol: C
Cat No: Madison

image Camp Randall - Madison, Wis., Cover from an unidentified Confederate P.O.W. captured at Island #10 and confined at Camp Randall; to Charles A. Wickliffe, Washington D.C.; franked with a 3¢ rose tied by a clear Madison, Wis. c.d.s., May 10, 1862; censor's approval at the left reads, "Camp Randall, Madison, Wis. The within letter is approved, Lt Col C. Whipple, 19th Regt Wis Ift, Comd Pris Depot", exceptionally clean and Very Fine. This is the only recorded item of P.O.W. correspondence to or from this short-lived prison.


The addressee, the Hon. Charles A. Wickliffe was a former Governor of Kentucky. He was elected in 1861 to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a Delegate to the 1861 Peace Conference and to the Border States Convention.

Camp Randall was primarily a training facility, readying more than 70,000 recruits. For a brief period, from April to August of 1862, it also served as a Prisoner of War camp for 1,300 Confederate soldiers captured along the Mississippi River. While at Camp Randall, 140 rebel soldiers died and were buried at "Confederate Rest" in nearby Forest Hill Cemetery, making it the northernmost Confederate burial site in the United States. (Image)

Estimate $1,200-1,500

Opening US$ 2,700.00
Sold...US$ 2,700.00


Closed..Jun-14-2022, 14:49:25 EST
Sold For 2700
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