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Item# 13252
Price: $450
JOHNSON’S ISLAND, SANDUSKY, OHIO: U.S. #65, 3¢ rose tied neat SANDUSKY O. //JAN / 27 [1864] cds on POW cover docketed “Wm. N. Berkeley Capt 8th Va” to “Maj. Richard S. Cox, Richmond, Va., Care Maj. Gen Butler Comdg Old Point Comfort” with manuscript examined markings and manuscript “By Flag of Truce Boat”. Neat cover with top back flap missing. $450.
William Noland Berkeley (1826-1907) was Field & Staff Virginia 8th Infantry.
Major Richard Smith Cox was Confederate Paymaster and formerly the U.S. Paymaster before the war and in early 1861. Cox held also the commission of Colonel of the 8th Regiment of the District Militia.