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Sale 92: The Summer Sale

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Prisoner of War Covers, Southern Prisons

Lot 2465    

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.

Realized: $270

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