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Item# 14171

LIBBY PRISON, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA: US 3¢ rose #65 tied cork with matching OLD POINT COMFORT / VA // DEC / 9 [1863] double circle postmark on inner cover addressed to Hiram Marshall, Jeffersonville, Indiana from 1st Sgt. William S. Marshall with contents docketing of Nov 28, 1863 up left side. William S. Marshall was Adjutant of the 51st Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry.He was a prisoner of war continuously from May 3, 1863 to February 14, 1865 except when trying to make good his escape from prison camp near Columbia SC in November 1864. This is the subject of one of my monthly columns “The Confederate Post” in The American Stamp Dealer & Collector. Ex Walske and Hedin. All Southern prisons uses are scarcer than Northern. Detailed military records included.[VA] [IN] $950.

William S. Marshall was Adjutant of the 51st Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. At enlistment he was described at 24 years old, 5’ 11” tall, fair complexion, dark hair and gray eyes. In his declaration for original invalid pension (photocopy of document included) he swore to the following facts. He was in the service and in the line of duty near Rome, Georgia as 1st Sergeant on or about May 3, 1863 when he was captured [at Rowe Gap] while making a raid under the command of Col. A. D. Streight. He was held as a prisoner of war at Libby Prison Richmond, Va from May 16, 1863 – May 7, 1864. He was then transferred to Confederate prisons: Camp Ogelthorpe at Macon, GA; “Workhouse” near the City Jail and Marine Hospital, both in Charleston SC, and prison camps near and in Columbia, SC – Camp Sorghum and Camp Asylum. He was a prisoner of war continuously from May 3, 1863 to February 14, 1865 except when trying to make good his escape from prison camp near Columbia SC in November 1864. He was recaptured in northeastern Georgia (map of escape route included), but again escaped from a train of cars on February 14, 1865. He describes hardship of disease brought on by the war and prisons in detail.

Price: $950