FORT DELAWARE/IMMORTAL 600: US 65, 3¢ rose (crease) tied with blue duplex of BALTIMORE M.D. APR 12 1862 (but has to be 1865) on cover to Lt. J.E. Cobb Prisoner of War 36th Division Fort Delaware Del. Edge faults. The commercially-made envelope is from Cora Williams, a known correspondent. Cobb was one of the IMMORTAL 600 intentionally placed under fire of their own guns as retaliation for the same treatment of Union prisoners. See my article on this unpleasant chapter of the war at ASDAPR09.pdf Cobb was a tent-mate of GW Finley in Charleston on Morris Island (item 21100), Ex Harrison. $250.

James Edward Cobb (1835 –1903) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama. Born in Thomaston, Georgia, Cobb attended the public schools and graduated from Emory College in Oxford, Georgia, in June 1856, where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law. He moved to Texas in 1857. He entered the Confederate States Army in 1861 as lieutenant in Company F, Fifth Texas Regiment, and served in the Army of Northern Virginia until he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. After his release, he settled in Tuskegee, Alabama, where he practiced law until 1874.