FORT MCHENRY, BALTIMORE, MD: US 65, 3¢ rose tied neat blue Baltimore target duplex, Nov 28, 1863, on small cover from Capt. B.F. Little [52nd N.C. Infantry], a prisoner at Fort McHenry, to Dr. R.J. Powell, Washington, D.C. with manuscript "Examined Wiard P.A.," slightly reduced at right, Very Fine.  Harrison records 29 covers to or from Fort McHenry. $950.

Benjamin Franklin Little was appointed captain in Company E, North Carolina 52nd Infantry Regiment, on April 28, 1862, and promoted to full lieutenant-colonel on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg. During Pickett’s Charge, Lt. Col. Little was severely wounded while leading his men and captured on the battlefield; his wound eventually led to amputation of an arm. After spending time at the Letterman Hospital at Gettysburg, he was transported on September 28 to West’s Building Hospital in Baltimore, then to Ft. McHenry Prison on October 22, 1863. Records show he was mustered out on August 30, 1864, at Gettysburg.