Items for Sale - Prisoner of War & Civilian Flag of Truce - Section Three

Item# 18626

Price: $1,100

ROPER HOSPITAL CHARLESTON, S.C.: bold strike of PORT ROYAL / S.C. // SEP / 27 / 1864 dcds, Due 3 straightline handstamp on cover to Miss Mary H. Harmer, Care of Mr. R. C. Popham, 945 Broadway, New York, manuscript Prisoner's Letter by Flag of truce / Exd as well as faint pencil Exd DG, examiner's mark (noted in Harrison as Sept 1864 use), manuscript Soldier's Letter Stewart L. Woodford Lt. Col. Agent of Exchange on back, tiny tear at top and sealed opening tears on back, otherwise Very Fine POW use from Charleston, 2001 CSA certificate, Ex Richard Warren. Per Harrison, ONLY 19 COVERS RECORDED FROM ROPER HOSPITAL. On page 48 of his book on Civil War prisons, Harrison shows the same correspondence identified as coming from Roper. $1,100.

Stewart L. Woodford (1835-1913) was an American attorney who studied at Yale and Columbia, as well as a politician who served in congress and was Lieutenant Governor of New York 1867-68. He served as Assistant United States Attorney for New York's Southern District from 1861 until volunteering for the Union Army in 1862. Woodford served as chief of staff to Maj. General Quincy A. Gillmore, commander of the Department of the South, and as commander of the 103rd Colored Infantry Regiment. He attained the rank of colonel and the brevet rank of brigadier general. He also served as Minister to Spain from 1897 until the beginning of hostilities during the Spanish-American War.

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