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Sale 116: The Civil War Sale

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Prisoner of War Covers - Southern Prisons - Texas & Virginia

Lot 4552    

Confederacy, Danville Prison (Building Unknown), Danville, Va., "Examined" light manuscript pencil endorsement of Confederate censor on cover to Zanesfield, Ohio, franked with 1861 3¢ Rose (65) tied by two strikes of "Old Point Comfort, Va. May 10" (1864) double circle postmark, Very Fine.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Cover sent from Cpl. William H. Harriman, Co. A, 15th U.S. Inf., to his father, captured at Chicamaunga on Sept. 19, 1863 and confined to Danville Prison, later transferred to Andersonville, where he died on March 10, 1865.

Realized: $300

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