POINT LOOKOUT, MARYLAND: Outgoing POW cover bearing postage of both sides contrary to regulations (outer envelope was supposed to be discarded at the exchange point).  Franked with US 65, 3¢ rose tied POINT LOOKOUT FEB 9 ’64 duplex, from POW Pri[vate] Geo. Q. Peyton, Co. A. 13th Regt. to his father, John W. Peyton, Rapid Ann Station, Culpeper County, O & ARR, Va.; with handstamped Prisoner's Letter Examined and manuscript directive By Flag of Truce; CSA 11, 10¢ blue tied by Feb 22 [1864] RICHMOND VA. FEB 22 CDS, part of top flap missing. Ex John Vagnetti. $1,350.

George Quintus Peyton joined Company A, 13th Virginia Infantry, Pegram's Brigade in January of 1864, after serving in the Quarter Master and Commissary Departments for two years. His diary, A Civil War record for 1864-1865, detailed his wartime experiences from his enlistment to his capture at the Battle of Cedar Creek, and through his life at Point Lookout POW Camp. Peyton's Father, John Peyton, to whom this letter was written, was physically unable to serve in the War, but he served as the Postmaster at Rapid Ann (Rapidan) and he also published a diary of the war years, Eyewitness to War in Virginia, 1861-1865: The Civil War Diary of John William Peyton.