Items for Sale - CSA 11, 10¢ Blue Intaglio - Type I on Cover - Section Three - Item#14515
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Item# 14515

CSA 11, 10¢ deep blue STRIP OF THREE, shade characteristic of Keatinge & Ball printing, tied double strike of unidentified (someone will) postmark and boxed PAID / manuscript “30” – rare combination of markings. On cover addressed to Miss Maggie E. Clewell (his sister) in Thomasville North Carolina but redirected to Salem; pencil docketing “From Uncle Frank in prison from Northern friends / Mrs. Nelson Rec 13th July 64 / 2 from xxxx”. Slightly reduced at right and a bit war weary but not badly. Frank Clewell was a Confederate Missouri Cavalry officer imprisoned at Johnson’s Island. [MO] $600.

Francis Christian Clewell (AKA Frank) (1842-1867) was Adjutant of Company I, 1st Regiment Missouri CSA Cavalry and the 1st / 3rd Consolidated Missouri CSA Cavalry. Letters of Lieut. Clewell are noted by the U.S. Naval Historical Center in D.C. as being in the North Carolina Division of Archives and History in Raleigh. The letters to his family in Salem, North Carolina, describe the Battle of Corinth, Federal gunboats, and conditions in and around Vicksburg. His correspondence as prisoner of war includes his letters from Johnson's Island, Ohio (1863-1864), some with secret messages. Clewell was confined at Johnson’s Island for 19 months and released either late 1864 or early 1865. He was captured again and imprisoned at Ship Island, Mississippi till the end on the war. Clewell correspondence is often to his sister Margaret (Maggie) E. Clewell (1840-1930); she married Robert A. Jenkins (1839-1917, a Confederate soldier in the Home Guard, Col. Coles Regiment. F. C. Clewell also had another brother in the war, Augustus Alexander Clewell (1845-1911) 21st NC Regiment. Letters from this correspondence are in the Duke University “Special Collections Library”, the Gertrude Jenkins papers. The Moravian Clewell family moved to Salem from Schoeneck, Pennsylvania.

Price: $600