| POW170 |
USA #65 Target Cancel
and matching Union Port
Royal SC double ring CDS 17 SEP 1864. This is a POW cover
originating at the Roper
Hospital
in Charlston. The cover was exchanged through Confederate Pocotalogo SC
and Union Port Royal SC and sent on to Mrs. George Kies, West
Killingly, Conn. Period notation at left “Prisoners Letter Lt George Kies
Charleston SC. Stewart L. Woodford Lt Col 127 NY Agent of Exchange
(Union).” Pencil manuscript “Examined.” George
Kies entered service as 2nd Lt Co K 18th
Conn Inf 8/10/1862
and was promoted 1st Lt 8/18/1862. He was captured as a POW at
Winchester, Va 6/15/1863, initially confined at Libby Prison before
moved to Macon, Charleston, and Columbia as part of the “Union 600.”
He was paroled at Camp Asylum, Columbia SC 12/10/1864. Harrison records
only 19 covers from the Roper Hospital. Stewart Lyndon Woodford
(1835-1913) entered service as Lt Col of the 127th NY Inf
on 9/1/1862. He was promoted Col of the 103rd Conn Inf on 3/5/1865 and
Breveted a Brig-Gen on 5/12/1865 before resigning the service
8/23/1865. POW covers exchanged through Pocotaligo and Port Royal are
decidedly uncommon. Cover has a very minor reduction at left not
affecting anything and a little edge staining top and right. Otherwise
a Very Fine and scarce through-the-lines POW cover. |
$1,250.00
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