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Item# 10350
Price: $300
POINT LOOKOUT, MARYLAND: US #65, 3¢ rose used on money letter (thus not canceled); to Private Wm. D. Crosland, Prisoner of War, Co. E, 5th Division, Prisoners Camp, Point Lookout, Md. with docketing “Per flag of Truce” and “$5.00 U.S. T[reasury] note”; also very small light manuscript “ex” (examined) at right. $300.
William D. Crosland (also found as Crossland) shown in Co. E, SC 15th Infantry and Co. A, SC Holcome Legion Cavalry, and Co. C., SC Manigault's Battalion. Found in “Reminiscences of the Sixties by Charles Crosland, 1910” was “My oldest brother, W. D. Crosland, volunteered from Wofford College into the Holcombe Legion, Captain Walche's company; was captured on a scouting raid and put in Point Lookout prison until near the end of the war. His regiment was fused into our brigade, the Seventh S. C. Cavalry.” Much more info’ available online.