CITY JAIL, CHARLESTON, S.C.: prisoner's cover with PORT ROYAL VA. SEP 27 double-circle postmark and two strikes of DUE 3 rating handstamp; addressed to Miss M.S. Ormsby, Walnut Hills, Hamilton Co(unty) Ohio, endorsed at left "Prisoner letter for Flag of Truce, B.F. Blair Lt. 123rd Regt. O. V. I.", manuscript "Exd" marking at top right.

INCLUDES ORIGINAL LETTER datelined "Charleston Jail, Charleston, S.C. Sept. 14" saying "Came here from Savannah yesterday…my health…is considerably impaired…I am not dangerously sick." He hopes to be transferred soon (he went to Columbia). Left back flap signed "Soldiers Letter, Stewart L. Woodford, Lt. Col., Agent of Exchange," reduced slightly at right, left flap reattached and can be opened for display.

ONLY EIGHT COVERS ARE RECORDED from this scarce prison, Very Fine; with 2008 CSA certificate. Ex Wm. A. Fox and Rich Murphy. $1,000.