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The Deane R. Briggs, M.D. Collection of Florida in the Civil War continued...

Across-the-Lines Mail continued...
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2186 c ImageFlorida to Fort Pulaski Ga., Prisoner-of-War Cover. "Official Business" corner card on undated (1865) cover addressed to David L. Yulee, prisoner at Fort Pulaski Ga., censored with manuscript "Read by the Maj. Gen. Comdg. This consent given to its transmittal. W.N. Kick Talcott Lt. & A.D.C.", edgewear and missing part of backflap, otherwise Fine, David Yulee, known as the "Florida Fire Eater" for his pro-slavery rhetoric, was the first person of Jewish ancestry elected to the U.S. Senate, he founded the Florida Railroad Company and resigned from the Senate to join the Confederacy in 1861, at the end of the Civil War he was imprisoned at Fort Pulaski for nine months before receiving a pardon (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction
2187 c Image3c Rose (65). Tied by "Jacksonville Fla. ? 15" (1865) circular datestamp with circle of wedges cancel at right on buff Florida Rail Road corner card cover to David L. Yulee, prisoner at Fort Pulaski Ga., tear at top right where opened, appears Very Fine, David Yulee, known as the "Florida Fire Eater" for his pro-slavery rhetoric, was the first person of Jewish ancestry elected to the U.S. Senate, he founded the Florida Railroad Company and resigned from the Senate to join the Confederacy in 1861, at the end of the Civil War he was imprisoned at Fort Pulaski for nine months before receiving a pardon (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
2188 c ImageJacksonville Fla. Parole Camp. Clear strike of dateless "Jacksonville Fla." circular handstamp, with "3" due handstamp, manuscript "Paroled Prisoners Letter SS Marsielles Post Adjt." censor marking on cover addressed to Pennsylvania Congressman and abolitionist John Cavode at Lockport Station Pa., original letter datelined May 5, 1865 from Cavode's son Jacob references his previous confinement at Andersonville Prison and states he had lost 52 pounds and 20 of his company while imprisoned, but came through the lines on Apr. 29 (three weeks after Appomattox), Very Fine and rare cover from the Jacksonville Parole Camp, which handled 3,400 prisoners from April-May 1865, perhaps one other is known, accompanied by three other contemporary letters to Cavode from Confederate prisoner Alex Peale and his father, thanking him for arranging Peale's parole from Baltimore in exchange for Jacob Cavode (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $2,800.00
Will close during Public Auction

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