POW221

USA #65 tied by a Target cancel and the St. Louis, MO CDS 5 NOV addressed to Miss Sarah E. Thorp, Jacksonville, Randolph Co., Mo. The cover is from an unidentified CSA POW (possibly a captured Missouri Confederate soldier) held at the Gratiot Street Prison (formerly the McDowell Medical College building) in St Louis, Missouri, to either a relative or a girl friend. Examiner's manuscript "Passed K" unidentified examiner from this obscure prison. The prison is described in Galen Harrison's book with 11 covers recorded. This cover was used in the Harrison book as an illustration of a cover from this prison on Page 163. Very clean cover.

$400.00 SOLD

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