Lot
2525 
Confederacy, City Jail, Charleston, S.C., orange buff Prisoner's cover with "Port Royal Va. Sep 27" double circle postmark and two strikes of "Due 3" rating handstamps, addressed to Hamilton Ohio, endorsed at left "Prisoner letter for Flag of Truce, B.F. Blair Lt. 123rd Regt. O. V. I.", manuscript "Exd" marking at top right, includes original letter, left backflap signed "Soldiers Letter, Stewart L. Woodford, Lt. Col., Agent of Exchange", reduced slightly at right and bottom, left flap reattached, Very Fine, only eight covers are recorded from this prison.; with 2008 C.S.A. certificate. Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Interesting letter datelined "Charleston Jail, Charleston, S.C. Sept. 14" saying "Came here from Savannah yesterday…(my health…is considerably impaired…I am not dangerously sick" and hope to be transferred soon (he went to Columbia).
Realized: $525