Items for Sale - Prisoner of War & Civilian Flag of Truce - Section One - Item#18738
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Item# 18738

Accompanying Union Patriotic with same OPC datestamp

CHESAPEAKE HOSPITAL VA: Unsealed prisoner-of-war cover addressed to William Alexander Fewell at Chesapeake Hospital, Fortress Monroe, Va., a South-to-North use sent thru Fortress Monroe and Old Point Comfort. Mixed franking with Confederate postage paid by CSA 4, 5¢ blue, and U.S. postage paid by demonetized 3¢ dull red (26), both tied by OLD POINT COMFORT / VA. // JUL / 2 / [1862] cds. The address and other directives on the cover have been mostly erased and some of them re-written in non-contemporary pencil, the 5¢ stamp with toned spots. Despite the difficulty in deciphering what was originally written on the cover, extensive research by Galen Harrison and Jerry Palazolo offers conclusive evidence that this is a genuine South-to-North mixed-franking prisoner cover, accompanied by a UNION PATRIOTIC with a # 65 and the same Old Point Comfort circular datestamp (showing that this style was used during the period in question, cover heavily toned) and by several letters detailing the expertizing process as well as descriptions of the recipient, who served in the 1st Palmetto Sharpshooters, was wounded at Seven Pines and died at Chesapeake Hospital before this cover was received, with 2004 CSA certificate and extensive background information, Ex Schopp. LL  $1,800.

Price: $1800