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9794

Item# 9794

Price: $230

CAMP CHASE: U.S. 3¢ rose #65 tied “prison bar grid” with matching COLUMBUS / O // AUG / 16 double circle with manuscript examined marking “Exmd CWB Allison Col” to Mrs. Dr. Alfred Hughes, Wheeling [West] Va. Handstamped censor makings were not used from Camp Chase until 1863.   A very lengthy detailed bio accompanies, a small part of which follows here. $230.

Homœopathy was introduced in 1848 in Wheeling by Dr. Alfred Hughes and his sister, Eliza Hughes, one of the first female physicians. During the cholera epidemic of 1854, he labored night and day, being the only homœopathic physician in the city. .Dr. Alfred Hughes was imprisoned for eight months at Camp Chase, Ohio as a political prisoner during the Civil War, as he was considered a traitor to the Union. He was released 25 Dec 1862 when he was exchanged for a brother of Dr. Pancoast, of Philadelphia, who was captured at Bloomery Gap, Va., and a prisoner at Salisbury, N. C. Dr. Hughes then went to Richmond and settled down in practice. He was elected a member of the Virginia legislature, and so remained until the fall of Richmond.

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