Lot
4543 
Confederacy, Union 600 - Marine Hospital Prison, Charleston S.C., 1864 Prisoner of War cover with "Port Royal S.C. Sep 12 1864" dcds and matching "Due 3" to Jno. Diehl at Philadelphia Pa., docketed "Officers Letter, Prisoner of War, Charleston S.C." and endorsed "Per Flag of Truce Boat", with original letter, Very Fine. Estimate $2,000 - 3,000.
ONE OF ONLY THREE RECORDED COVERS FROM MARINE PRISON HOSPITAL, ONE OF THE RAREST SOUTHERN PRISONS.
Letter datelined "Charleston S.C. July 30th 1864" and reads "Dear Bro(ther) …tired of this prison life we have been shoved very near all over the Southn Confederacy and have brought up here. We were in Macon Ga. some two months. " He asks for a box of clothing and provisions via Express office to "Prisoner of War Charleston S.C. via Hilton Head" and signed Jacob S. Devine 1st Lieut. 71st P.V." Jacob S. Devine enlisted on August 9, 1861 as a private into Company H of the 71st Penn. Infantry; he was transferred to Field and Staff and then to Company C. He was promoted through the ranks as high as captain on October 29, 1863 during his incarceration (not mustered). He was captured at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 and confined variously in Confederate prisons at Macon Ga, Columbia S.C., Andersonville Ga. and Libby in Richmond Va.
Realized: $1,700