Confederate States of America continued...
Prisoner of War Covers, Southern Prisons continued...
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 Confederacy, Libby Prison, Richmond Va. Prisoner of war folded letter datelined "Richmond Libby Prison 6 August" with "Old Point Comfort, Va. Aug 8"
double-circle datestamp and "Due 6" circled rating handstamp to New York City, manuscript "Exd" examiner's marking, endorsed "Soldier's Letter" at bottom left, some interesting content "…I am still here
with but a little hope of getting out until the difficulties existing between the two authorities are settled out. I am badly in want of under clothing's as it is 56 days I am using the same shirt washing it now & then and remaining without
shirts until mine is dry … Other Colonels have been appointed Brigadier Generals and I have lost since I am here shut up with 500 other Federal Officers all opportunity to become Brigadier. Col. Duffie whose regiment was taken officers &
privates all prisoners except some 35 and himself was made Brigadier! He was Major in the Harris Light Cavalry when I was already Colonel of the 4th … You speak about using influence to get me exchanged. There are here many Colonels & two
Generals and if they cannot get me exchanged how can I? Your letters of course are read before delivery but they will all faithfully be given to me if nothing about politics is in them. I really do not know why our Government agreed to exchange
enlisted men but refuses to exchange officers. Officers of both armies are suffering very badly and then confinement with this weather and many will lose their life by fear or other sickness because the two commissionaires cannot agree in their
meetings this is cruelly ridiculous! Oh how I long to get a good bath and a good dinner…"; some edge wear, Very Fine with excellent content.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000. (Image1)
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Est. $750-1,000
SOLD for $750.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Libby Prison, Richmond Va. Orange inner prisoner-of-war cover endorsed "Weston Rowand, 1st Va Cavalry U.S.A., Prisoner of War" at left, sent
by flag-of-truce entering U.S. mails with "Old Point Comfort Va., Mar 1" cds and matching "Due 3" rating handstamp to Allegheny City Pa., original letter datelined "Libby Prison, Richmond Feb 21st/63" with some interesting
content "…This will assure you that I was not one of the stampede who escaped from this building a short time since. When we meet again, I will explain why I was not … Many officers here are cursing our Gov. for not effecting an
exchange. Many will leave the service therefore when released. We hear today that our Flag Boat returned to Fortress Monroe with our boxes…"; accompanied by "C.S. Military Prison, Richmond, July 8 1863" part-printed receipt for
$25 that would be returned upon release from prison signed "E.W. Ross, Clk of Prison", Very Fine and choice, ex-Walske.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000.
A WONDERFUL PRISONER OF WAR FLAG-OF-TRUCE COVER FROM LIBBY
PRISON IN RICHMOND.
With the largest Union prisoner population in the C.S.A., Richmond was forced to use a number of facilities as prisons. Northbound mail was processed through Richmond, but virtually all known covers from Richmond
prisons are inner envelopes which do not have C.S.A. frankings or Richmond postmarks, and entered the U.S. mails at Old Point Comfort.
Libby Prison opened in March 1862 to receive transferred prisoners from Ligon's, Mayo's and
Taylor's Warehouses. It re-opened in mid-1863, and quickly grew to over 4,000 inmates by the end of 1863. It was evacuated on the fall of Richmond in April 1865. Eight flag-of-truce covers are known from the via Norfolk period, and five are known
from the via Petersburg period. More than 160 covers are known from the via Richmond period. (Image1) (Image2)
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Est. $750-1,000
SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Libby Prison, Richmond Va. Letter datelined "Libby Prison, 22 July 63" in pencil with some interesting content, "…There is still some
difficultly about exchanging us but I hope to be soon free and in New York to go with you & our friends to Christen Miss. Eugene at Maison Dorie … I consol myself here by thinking of you and that keeps my spirits up. This is the 3rd letter I
wrote you since 36 days I am in captivity. When you write me address as follows, Col. Cesnola Prisoner of War Richmond Care Col. Ludlow Fortress Monroe…" and signed Luigi, there is an additional letter in pencil "If anything
sent is not received by the prison it will be because it is kept by your own people and not by ours - any that we receive will be delivered with success and trust." and signed by John M. Higgins, Very Fine.
Estimate; $300 -
400.
John M. Higgins was a prominent Richmond citizen held in Castle Godwin. After his release, Higgins was hired as a clerk in the Confederate War Department, where his job included the examination of prison mail.
Luigi Palma di
Cesnola (1832-1904), an Italian-American soldier, diplomat and amateur archaeologist. He was released from Libby Prison early in 1864 when the Union Agent for Prisoner Exchange offered a personal friend of Jefferson Davis as barter. He served
in the Wilderness and Petersburg campaigns (1864-65) as a commander of a cavalry brigade but was not promoted to brigadier general. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the American Civil War. He was United States consul at
Larnaca in Cyprus (1865-1877) and first Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1879-1904). (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Libby Prison, Richmond Va. Letter datelined "Libby Prison, Richmond Va., Decb. 27 1863" with some interesting content "…It is really a shame
that the State of New York which is the largest represented in this prison, its aid societies, ladies societies etc. etc. had not sent a penny worth of things to the prisoners except Genl. Wadsworth who sent $2,000 to be distributed among the
enlisted men at Belle Isle. While the ladies of Baltimore have send hundredths of boxes with every kind of delicacies, towels, soap, combs, hand glasses, cigars, etc. - The ladies societies of Philadelphia. sent to the Pennsylvania troops thousands &
thousands dollars worth of eatables & delicacies. The societies of Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts all in short have sent to their state volunteers in prison here some tokens of their sympathy and affection but
the great fashionable ladies of New York City and State. You will perhaps say that they did not know we would receive them - Why? Because they have no time left from their amusements & flirtations even to know that there is such a thing as a war
… This prison life will become history and the state of New York ladies societies will have a very poor place in it … among the many officers of my country in New York there was the son of Gen. Racchia who was brought up in the Jesuit
school with me - His name is Carlo Albert Racchia…" and signed Luigi, Very Fine.
Estimate; $400 - 600.
Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904), an Italian-American soldier, diplomat and amateur
archaeologist. He was released from Libby Prison early in 1864 when the Union Agent for Prisoner Exchange offered a personal friend of Jefferson Davis as barter. He served in the Wilderness and Petersburg campaigns (1864-65) as a commander of
a cavalry brigade but was not promoted to brigadier general. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the American Civil War. He was United States consul at Larnaca in Cyprus (1865-1877) and first Director of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York (1879-1904). (Image1)
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $850.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Libby Prison, Richmond Va. Inner cover bearing U.S. 3¢ rose (65) tied by grid cancel duplexed with "Old Point Comfort Va., Sep 3" cds to
Canton Miss., original enclosure datelined "Libby Prison, Aug 25/ 64" with some interesting content "…Frank and I and 16 more were taken on the 25th. We are both unhurt…You can write if you put a Confederate Stamp beside
our own…"; cover reduced at right through stamp, Fine.
Estimate; $300 - 400.
Letter from William E. Endicott of the 10th Mass. Light Artillery was captured at Reams' Station Va. on August 25, 1864. The
letter was written only three days later. The "Frank" was Francis M. Howes. (Image1) (Image2)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $270.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. Yellow prisoner-of-war cover to Miss Marcia Fisher in Trenton N.J., endorsed "Soldiers Letter Prisoner of War" at top and
signed "Wm. D. Wilkins" and "Asst Adjt Gen", censored with manuscript "Exd HW." by Captain Henry H. Wirz, later of Andersonville Prison infamy, postmarked "Washington, D.C., Sep. 12, 1863" double circle with
matching "Due 3" handstamp for U.S. rating; minor stain spots, otherwise Very Fine.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.
A RARE EXAMPLE OF THE COMMANDANT HENRY WIRZ'S CENSOR MARKING ON A FLAG-OF-TRUCE COVER FROM LIBBY PRISON.
Henry H. Wirz took command of Libby Prison beginning in late 1862. In March 1864, he was assigned to Andersonville (Camp Sumter). After the war, Wirz was charged with conspiracy and murder by Federal authorities. His trial was held
in the Capitol building in Washington and was presided over by Union General Lew Wallace. A number of former prisoners testified on conditions at Andersonville, many accusing Wirz of specific acts of cruelty (some of these accounts were later
called into question by historians as exaggerated or false). The court also heard from Confederate officers and considered official correspondence from captured Confederate records. Wirz presented evidence that he pleaded to Confederate
authorities to try to get more food and maintained that he tried to improve the conditions for the prisoners. Wirz was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to death. On November 10, 1865, he was hanged in Washington at the site of the current
Supreme Court building -- the only Confederate official to be tried, convicted and executed for war crimes resulting from the Civil War.
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Est. $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. Prisoner-of-war use with cover endorsed "Libby Prison, Richmond, Va." at left entered mails with "Old Point Comfort Va. Mar
9" cds and "Due 3" handstamp to Philadelphia Pa., original letter datelined "Libby Prison Richmond Va., February 22d 1864" from J. DeWitt Whiting. Capt. Co "D" 3rd Ohio Vols. reading in part "…I do hope that you
will continue to write to me as letters are a great treat to us. I can not promise to answer very promptly as we can only write this much once a week & then I feel it my duty to write to Mother and try and comfort her. I hope & pray that your efforts
to have me exchanged will be crowned with success…", Very Fine, covers actually endorsed "Libby Prison" are scarce.
Estimate; $500 - 750. (Image1) (Image2)
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Est. $500-750
SOLD for $675.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Libby Prison, Richmond, Va.; Danville Va.; Macon Ga.; Columbia S.C. and Charleston S.C. Group of 8 letters and 2 covers from Capt. George H. Starr comprising 3
written from Libby Prison (Jan. 11 to Nov. 19, 1863), 1 from Danville Va. dated May 9th 1864, 1 from "C.S. Military Prison. Macon, Georgia" dated May 21, 1864 reading "…I would again urge that something be done to secure
my special exchange. Officers have not been exchanged heretofore according to date of capture; so that there is no telling when I may get out…We hope for a Flag of Truce to come between Savannah and Fort Pulaski…"; 1 from
"C.S. Military Prison, Columbia S.C." dated Oct. 10, 1864; and 1 from Charleston dated "September 11th 64" with original inner cover endorsed "From an Officer, Prisoner of War, Charleston S.C.", "Exd" examiner's
marking, entered mails with "Port Royal, Sep 18, 1864" cds and "Due 3" handstamp to Rochester N.Y., stating "Our rations are good and our accommodations very passable. We expect an issue of clothing from the "Sanitary
Commission" in a few days.", and a Washington D.C. Jan. 5th 1865 letter concerning his exchange, Very Fine and interesting group telling the amazing story of Capt. George Starr.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.
Captain
George H. Starr was 22 years old when he enlisted on Nov. 23, 1861 as a private in the 104th Regiment of the New York Volunteers. He rose through the ranks, being promoted to Sergt. in Nov. 1861, 2nd Lieut. in March 1862, and to Captain in Sept.
1862. He was taken prisoner at Gettysburg and confined at Libby Prison in Richmond, from which he escaped along with 108 other officers on Feb. 9, 1864. He was recaptured and confined at Macon, GA, from which he escaped in Aug. 1864 and was again
recaptured and confined at Camp Sorghum in Columbia, SC. He escaped for the 3rd time in Oct. 1864 and was able to make his way to Union lines.
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Est. $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $2,700.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Salisbury Prison, Salisbury, N.C. Prisoner of war multicolor wallpaper cover made from illustrated "Sugar Pear" pattern endorsed "From Wm. B
Ryan at Salisbury Prison, North Carolina" to Boston Mass. endorsed "Sold. letter", manuscript "Exd" examiner's marking, partial Salisbury cds where stamp missing, "Due 3" handstamp for unpaid U.S.
postage, with original letter datelined "C. S. Prison Salisbury, N. C. April 16 /62" with some interesting content "We all arrived at Salisbury March 13th…Make a small package of all and write the contents on the outside and
send via Fortress Monroe and pay express to Fortress Monroe and tell my friends that I should be pleased to have a letter from them all…", Fine.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.
A STUNNING AND RARE SALISBURY PRISONER
OF WAR WALLPAPER USE. (Image1) (Image2)
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Est. $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $2,600.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Tyler, Texas. Prisoner of War letter datelined "Texas Tyler, July 6, 1864" from William Braznell to his wife, he was captured "On the second days
fight at Pleasant Hill", he states that he has been a prisoner for 3 months and hopes to soon be exchanged; accompanied by letter notifying Mrs. Braznell of her husband's capture by Sergt. John Fleming of the 165th New York Vols. and is
dated "Near Harper's Ferry, Va. August 9th, 1854". In this letter he states, "He was taken prisoner at the battle of Sabine Cross Roads April 8th and is now I believe confined at Tyler, Texas with about 30 others of the
regiment."; by February 1865 Mrs. Braznell still had not heard any further word from her husband and original February 18th letter contacting the 165th New York about her husband accompanies, on reverse is response "Madam I -regret to
inform you - on the authority of a member of the regiment recently exchange - that your husband William Braznell, died at Camp "Felder", Texas - on the 17th day of October 1864", Fine and wonderful group of letters.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000.
Tyler, Texas is a rare Southern Prison with only 5 covers recorded by Harrison. (Image1)
Get Market Data for [United States (Confederate States) Collection] |
Est. $750-1,000
SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Workhouse Penitentiary, Charleston S.C. "Prisoner of War letter datelined "Charleston S.C. Sept 7th 1864" with return address of George Kies, 1st
Lieut. Co. K. 18th Regt. C. Vols, Prisoner of War, he writes a letter to his wife describing the Workhouse Penitentiary in Charleston, S.C., "I arrived in this prison Monday evening, it is a very fine prison indeed. lt was built when I lived
in the city…, it was then a work house and not a Military prison, but it answers for the latter purpose very well. It being clean and well ventilated and more than all of the officers in command are very kind and gentlemanly. True Specimens of
Southern Chivalry, noble hearted, kind and brave. There has been a few Officers exchanged of late, but our turn has not yet come. It only wants seven days to make fifteen months a Prisoner. It is a very long time to lay in Prison.", Very
Fine and scarce letter.
Estimate; $200 - 300.
The Workhouse was a large building located close to the City Jail in which Union Officers were confined. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction |
Prisoner of War Covers, Northern Prisons
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 Confederacy, Point Lookout Md. Mostly clear strike of "Prisoner's Letter, Aug 8, 1864, Examined" octagon handstamp (CSA type C, EKU), U.S. 3¢ rose
(65), natural s.e., and C.S.A. 10¢ greenish blue (12c), large margins except close at upper right, both stamps tied by duplex target and "Point Lookout Md. Aug. 8 '64" double-circle datestamp and by
"Richmond Va. Aug 26" cds on fresh orange-buff cover addressed in blue manuscript to Nelson Station Va., endorsed "By flag of truce boat", fresh and Extremely Fine combination use, ex-Everett.
Estimate; $1,000 -
1,500.
A CHOICE POINT LOOKOUT MS. PRISONER OF WAR COMBINATION USE TO VIRGINIA.
According to Galen Harrison's book, this is the earliest strike of the "Prisoner's Letter, Examined" type c handstamp. (Image1)
Get Market Data for [United States (Confederate States) 65, 12c] |
Est. $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $1,350.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Johnson's Island. Orange buff cover with oval "Prisoner's Letter, Examined G.S.B., Johnson's Island, O." censor's handstamp and bearing
U.S. 3¢ Rose (65) tied by target with "Sandusky O. Oct 25 '64" double-circle datestamp also tying C.S.A. 10¢ blue (12), large margins to clear at left, part strike of "Richmond Va. Nov 6"
cds, addressed to Mt. Pleasant N.C., endorsed "Per Flag of Truce" but without prisoner's name, Extremely Fine and choice combination, ex-Weatherly, H. Green.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000.
Cover most likely from
Pvt. James F. Litaker of Co. F 57th N.C. Inf. who married Catherline L. House after the war. He was captured as a POW at Rappahannock Station Va. Nov. 7th 1863 and was confined at Johnsons Island until his release Jun. 12th 1865. (Image1)
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Est. $750-1,000
CLOSED
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 Confederacy, Allegheny City Penitentiary. Buff cover bearing 3¢ Rose (65) tied by circular grid cancel duplexed with "Pittsburgh Pa. Feb 3, 186"
double-circle datestamp to Miss Namie Lyne at Keene Ky. from one of Morgan's Raiders, Lieut. Van J. Sellers, manuscript "Examnd" examiner's mark at left, original letter datelined "Allegeny City Feby. 1st 1864."
with some interesting content "…I received a letter from Wallace, the first for more than a month. Two days since she has been sojourning among the Buckeyes even in the Godless city of Cincinnati and makes that an excuse for not writing
sooner … I do not want for books such as they are, tho the prison library is pretty well stocked with Bibles, and (is it not horrible) novels, beside friends of the prisoners send books often…" and signed at bottom
"Van J. Sellers", Very Fine from one of the officer's in the celebrated Morgan's Raiders, ex-Gallagher.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.
Sellers was first captured in May of 1862 and was
released six months later in a prisoner of war exchange. He immediately joined Morgan's Raiders. In June and July 1863, General John Hunt Morgan led 2,460 confederate cavalry over a thousand miles on a trail of terror through Kentucky, Indiana
and Ohio. when Morgan's Raiders were finally captured in 0hio in late July, Sellers was one of the Confederate prisoners held for approximately eight-months between 1863 and 1864. The Allegheny City Penitentiary held only 112 of the captured
Morgan's Raiders; no other confederate prisoners. According to another letter by sellers to Lyne, "There are here confined 112 prisoners of war. These occupy cells on the first and second corridors of the center building of the prison. On the
first or lower corridor are four double cells about 20 x 16 x 8 feet in dimensions. ln each of these five prisoners are confined. The remainder are confined in single cells of half the above size, two in each cell." According to Rich Gigler in an
article in the Pittsburgh Press Roto, the routine operations of the prison were assigned to the provost marshal Captain E. S. Wright, Mail was apparently censored and out-going letters were restricted to one and one-half pages. By November 1863, the
local residents and some Union officers were questioning the outrageous expense of 46¢ a day to feed each of the prisoners. Gigler noted that Sellers was eventually was moved to Point Lookout, Maryland. (Image1)
Get Market Data for [United States (Confederate States) Collection] |
Est. $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $1,600.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Ind. Prisoner-of-war use of U.S. 3¢ pink (U34) entire cancelled by blue "Indianapolis, Ind. 5 Nov '64" duplex
to Madisonville Tenn., endorsed "Via N & Ch R R Tenn" at top left, unusually clear strike of black oval "Prisoner's Letter Examined Camp Morton, Ind." handstamp (CSA PWH-15), original P.O.W. letter from Private
William S. Brown datelined "Camp Morton Ind. Nov 4th 1864" to his cousin, Very Fine and scarce. C.S.A. Catalog No. PWH-15 $500.
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1) (Image2)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Elmira Prison, Elmira, N.Y. Prisoner cover bearing U.S. 3¢ rose (65) tied by "Elmira, N.Y, Oct 10, 1863" cds on yellow cover to
Franklin Tenn., "Prisoner's Letter, Elmira, N.Y., Examined" examiner's oval handstamp; edge wear, accompanied by CDV of the Elmira prison camp, Fine.
Estimate; $150 - 200. (Image1) (Image2)
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Est. $150-200
SOLD for $260.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Johnson's Island, Sandusky O. Incoming cover to prisoner-of-war from Hadensville Va., endorsed "By Flag of Truce, Care of Hon, Robert Ould, Richmond
Va.", mixed franking with C.S.A. 10¢ Blue, Die B (12), deep shade, tied by indistinct strike of "Hadensville Va. Feb 7" cds, and U.S. 3¢ rose (65), corner faults, tied by quartered cork, matching
"Old Point Comfort Va. Mar 27" cds, docketed "Apr. 6 1865" at top, reverse with two strikes of "Prisoner's Letter, Johnsons Island, Examined, J. Jordan" examiner's oval handstamp (used from Apr. 3-May 5, 1865);
some light soiling, otherwise Very Fine, ex-Walske, with 1994 P.F. certificate.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.
A SCARCE JOHNSON'S ISLAND FLAG-OF-TRUCE COVER THROUGH RICHMOND AND OLD POINT COMFORT.
Robert Ould,
who handled this cover in Richmond, was well-known as a Confederate agent for the "Dix-Hill Cartel", which was an 1862 agreement between the C.S.A. and U.S. on prisoner exchange
References: Illustrated in Special Routes on p.
71. (Image1) (Image2)
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Est. $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $750.00
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 Confederacy, Old Capital Prison, Washington, D.C. Yellow prisoner of war cover to Henry Harper, Beverly, Randolph Co. W.V. bearing U.S. 3¢ rose (65), tied
by quartered cork duplexed with partial "Washington D.C., Apr 26" cds, remarkable bold strike of "Passed W. P. Wood, Military Prison" circular censor's handstamp (Type I); accompanied by CDV of the Old Capitol
Prison, Very Fine and choice strike of this censor handstamp.
Estimate; $300 - 400.
Old Capitol Prison was the building that served as a temporary Capitol after Washington, D.C. had been burned during the War of 1812. W. P.
Wood was the Superintendent and was also a special agent of the government. Much intelligence information was gathered by him from the prisoners for the Union.
Old Capitol Prison was used mostly for disloyal citizens and spies, such as Belle
Boyd and Rose O'Neel Greenhow, as well as captured sailors who had been running the blockade. It was the first Federal prison to hold Confederate prisoners. About a score of prisoners captured at First Bull Run (Manassas) were sent there
in July 1861. The largest number of prisoners there at one time was 1,414. By war's end, 397 Confederate prisoners were buried in Washington, D.C.
(Image1) (Image2)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $675.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Point Lookout, Md. Unsealed orange prisoner-of-war cover bearing U.S. 3¢ rose (65) tied by target cancel duplexed with "Point Lookout Md.
Oct 10 '64" double-circle datestamp to Lexington Va., manuscript prisoner "S.M. Dunlop, Co. "II" 4th Va. Inft" and "By flag of truce Boat" endorsements, "Prisoner's Letter Examined." octagonal censor
handstamp (Ty. IIa), exchanged via Old Point Comfort and Richmond with "Due 10" straightline for Confederate postage, "Due 2" handstamp overstruck with grid cancel, Very Fine, ex-Brandon.
Estimate; $400 -
600.
Samuel M. Dunlop was captured at Gettysburg and one of three brothers in the war, the others being W.E. and R.K. R.K. was wounded at 2nd Manassas and Chancellorsville. (Image1)
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Point Lookout, Md. "Provost Marshal's Office, District St. Mary's, Point Lookout, Md." printed corner card on cover bearing 3¢ rose
(65) cancelled by four-rings duplexed with "Point Lookout Md., May 1 '65" cds to Winchester Va.; with original enclosure on Provost Marshal's printed stationery informing mother of her son's death from chronic diarrhea
and his interment in the military cemetery, signed by "A.G. Brady" Major & Prov. Marshal; staining affecting stamp, Fine.
Estimate; $500 - 750. (Image1) (Image2)
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Est. $500-750
SOLD for $850.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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