DECAMP GENERAL HOSPITAL, DAVID'S ISLAND, PELHAM, NY: Cover with mandated soldier’s endorsement of Sgt. J.L. Warlick, Co. B, 11th Regt. N.C., wounded at Gettysburg and confined at DeCamp General Hospital; to Miss L. Corrie McGimsey, Linville River, Burke County, N.C.; franked with a target-canceled US 65, 3¢ rose (nicked corner) alongside a Pelham, N.Y. CDS Aug 6 (1863); entered the Confederate mails at Richmond with an Aug 25 CDS and handstamped DUE 10; Very Fine use with postage of both sides. ONE OF JUST 12 RECORDED COVERS FROM DECAMP. Ex Galen Harrison. $750.

Laura Cornelia McGimsey of Burke County, N.C., married John Lewis Warlick during the Civil War. Warlick died in 1865, from complications of his wounds. Their published correspondence was memorialized in 2000 in My Dearest Friend : the Civil War Correspondence of Cornelia Mcgimsey and Lewis Warlick. The widowed Mrs. Warlick married William Brown Avery of Canoe Hill, Burke County, in 1869. Many of Lewis Warlick’s letters to her were written from Virginia, as well the U.S. General Hospital at David's Island, N.Y., in 1863. They are housed at UNC at Chapel Hill. There are also letters of courtship, 1866-1868, from E. A. Warlick, John R. Denton, Samuel P. Tate, and J. Free Munday after Warlick died. Warlick had service in Co. G, NC 1st Infantry as well as Co. B NC 11th Infantry. He was severely wounded July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg during the assault against Cemetery Ridge, where he was taken prisoner and hospitalized. He was transferred to David’s Island in New York Harbor and ultimately paroled April 11, 1865. He enlisted a private but rose through the ranks to 2nd lieutenant.