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Sale 95: Gems of Philately

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Blockade & Prisoner of War Covers

Lot 4347    

Confederacy, Salisbury Prison, N.C., incoming folded cover addressed to "Capt. J. T. Drew, Prisoner of War, Salisbury, North Carolina, via N York" bearing U.S. 3¢ rose (65) nicely centered, tied by blue "Hinesburgh Vt., Jul 3" cds, pencil censor mark, sent through Old Point Comfort Va., entered C.S.A. mails with "Petersburg Va. Jul. 29" cds and matching "10" cent due handstamp for C.S.A. postage; small part of flap missing, Very Fine and scarce.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

A CHOICE VERMONT FLAG-OF-TRUCE COVER THROUGH PETERSBURG, WHICH WAS OPEN AS AN EXCHANGE POINT FOR ONLY FOUR MONTHS IN 1862.

John Theophilus Drew, UVM Class of 1863 was born in Danville Vt. on June 8th 1834. On the breaking out of the rebellion in April 1861, at the first public call in Burlington for volunteers, he enlisted, threw his whole energies into the work of enlisting others, was chosen and commissioned as captain of Company G, Second regiment. The regiment arrived in Washington and was ordered across the Potomac just in season to take part in the first battle of Bull Run. Capt. Drew was suffering from illness but could not be kept in camp. In endeavoring to follow the retreating rabble of the Union army he was taken prisoner, carried to Richmond, Libby Prison, Salisbury, Columbia and Charleston, whence he was exchanged in the summer of 1862 after fourteen months imprisonment.

Realized: $1,350

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