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Item# 19913

CAMP CHASE / COLUMBUS, OHIO: US 65, 3¢ rose canceled “prison bar grid” and tied with matching cancel of COLUMBUS / O. // OCT / 4 (1862) with manuscript Camp Chase Prisoner-of-War Camp examined markings “Exmd / Peter Zinn / Maj Com Post” on cover to “Mrs. Dr. Alfred Hughes, Wheeling (West) Va.” Handstamped censor makings were not used from Camp Chase until 1863; small scuff at top edge of cover. Ex Benson. $250.

Homœopathy was introduced in 1848 in Wheeling by Dr. Alfred Hughes and his sister, Eliza Hughes, one of the first female physicians. During the cholera epidemic of 1854, he labored night and day, being the only homœopathic physician in the city. Dr. Alfred Hughes was imprisoned for eight months at Camp Chase, Ohio, as a political prisoner during the Civil War, as he was considered a traitor to the Union. He was released 25 Dec 1862 when he was exchanged for a brother of Dr. Pancoast, of Philadelphia, who was captured at Bloomery Gap, Va., and a prisoner at Salisbury, N. C. Dr. Hughes then went to Richmond to practice medicine. He was elected a member of the Virginia legislature, and so remained until the fall of Richmond.

Price: $250