Lot 1135
Confederacy, Fort Pulaski, Ga., envelope with soldier's endorsement "Lt. G.W. Roughton, Prisoner of War" to Sandersville, Ga. "Per Flag of Truce via Savannah, Ga.", manuscript examiner's marking "Ex" in magenta, "Charleston S.C./Jan. 7" (1865) c.d.s. and handstruck "10", Very Fine and evocative cover from one of "The Immortal Six Hundred" Confederate officers moved as prisoners to Fort Pulaski, only 24 covers recorded.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
Galen D. Harrison (p.119) best summed up the background of the barbaric conditions of virtual starvation and disease: "In late October, 1864, the 600 Confederate officers who had been brought from Fort Delaware to be placed on Morris Island in retaliation for the Union officers supposedly under fire in Charleston were removed from Morris Island to Fort Pulaski, on Cockspur Island, at the mouth of the Savannah River. A short time later, 220 were sent to Hilton Head; the remainder were kept at Fort Pulaski."
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| Realized $3,500 |
