Confederacy, Andersonville, Ga., dateless postmark on guard's letter from James Wells addressed to his brother "Lieut. G.R. Wells, Stone Mountain Ga.", endorsed with sender's company designation (Company K 2nd Regt. Georgia Reserves) and manuscript "Due 10" rate, included is original enclosure datelined "Camp Sumter June the 26, 1864", cover with some foxing on reverse only, Extremely Fine. Estimate  $3,000 - 4,000. A REMARKABLE AND RARE COVER FROM THE MOST INFAMOUS CONFEDERATE PRISON DURING THE CIVIL WAR. Earl Antrim, in his handbook "Civil War Prisons and Their Covers" gives an excellent description of Andersonville, "The Official Records say that Andersonville had its first prisoners on March 1, 1864, but there is a record of prisoners there on February I, 1864. It was the site of Camp Sumter, the most dreaded prison in the South. Prisoners' diaries damned it bitterly, and on arriving and seeing the filth and sickness would ask "Is this hell?" It consisted of twenty-six acres, partly swampy, and its inadequate huts and semi-shelters held as many as thirty-three thousand one hundred and fourteen at one time, so crowded there was hardly room to lie down to sleep. Of the approximately forty-five thousand six hundred and thirteen who were sent there, twelve thousand six hundred and forty-four died. Post war agitation by ex-prisoners succeeded in having Capt. Wirz, the prison commander, hanged for his treatment of them. The camp was surrounded by a wall 20 feet high, near the top of which was a small platform for the guards. It was guarded by sixty-four guards, eight on each end and twenty-four on each side. There were fortifications on high ground surrounding the camp.". $0 (Image)