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Item# 20170
Price: $900
CARROLL PRISON, WASHINGTON DC: cover to Jesse T. Hughes, Carroll Prison Room 32, Washington DC; cork-canceled 3¢ rose and Old Point Comfort, Va. DCDS Dec. 31 (1864); manuscript "Released Address not known" in partially erased pencil as well as "Released" in ink; red wax seal on back flaps, manuscript "$1.00" probably indicating contents, apparently a money letter that went through the postal system instead of courier. Hughes, a mail contractor, was a civilian prisoner from Prince George Co., Virginia. Harrison notes only 13 covers to or from Carroll Prison. $900.