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Sale 25: The Autumn Sale

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Confederate States: Prisoner's of War Covers

Lot 1622    

Confederacy, Fort Delaware, Delaware City, Delaware. Incoming cover addressed to "Lieut. McHenry Howard, Prisoner of War" with Confederate States Official Imprint "Head Qrs. Dept. of Richmond/Official Business" (crossed out), franked with United States 1861 3¢ rose (slightly defective) tied by rosette cancel with "Old Point Comfort, Va." double circle postmark, cover edge wear, F.-V.F., a rare cover & this imprint is unlisted in Dietz.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

McHenry Howard (1838-1923), a resident of Baltimore, sailed for Virginia at the outbreak of the Civil War to join the Confederate army. He was captured at Spotsylvania Court House and imprisoned at Ft. Delaware. After being confined at Fort Delaware, Howard was taken to Savannah and exchanged later in 1864. Howard participated in the defense of Richmond until its fall in early April, 1865, and then accompanied the army during the Appomattox campaign. Shortly before the surrender, Howard was captured for a second time. He was held at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington and on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie, and released in May, 1865. In addition to being highly regarded as a staff officer, Howard is remembered for his important Civil War narrative, Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier and Staff Officer Under Johnston, Jackson, and Lee (1914). Howard's account also provides a first person account of the reaction of the men at Fort Delaware to the prisoner transfers of the summer of 1864.

Realized: $425

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