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Item# 18400
Price: $200
CIVILIAN FLAG OF TRUCE: U.S. 65, 3¢ rose (small sealed tear at UR) tied cork cancel on fresh cover with ms. directive “By Flag of Truce” at upper left, to Mrs. John A. Rockwell, Norwich, Connecticut. $200.
John Arnold Rockwell (1803-1861) of Norwich, Connecticut, was a graduate of Yale College in 1822. He then studied law with Judge Swift of Windham, Conn. and Calvin Goddard of Norwich. Rockwell represented Norwich as a senator in the State Legislature before being elected to Congress in 1845. In 1831 he married Mary Watkinson Perkins. They had three sons: Alfred Perkins Rockwell (1834-1903) served as a Captain with the First Connecticut Light Battery during the Civil War. John Arnold Rockwell (1829-1924) opened a doctor’s office in Stamford, Conn. Joseph P. Rockwell (1843-1885) also served in the army during war and died young.