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

Item# 18627

Price: $1,200

“UNION 600”: Charleston, S.C.: neat cover from an unidentified prison in Charleston to Mrs. Annie R. Horney, So. Charleston, Clark Co[unty] Ohio, endorsed "Prisoners Letter Charleston S.C." at left and with "Exd. HHR" examiner's marking (Capt. Hugh Hamilton Rogers, Provost Marshal), entered mails with PORT ROYAL / S.C. // AUG / 20 / 1864 dceds and matching Due 3, Very Fine. Galen Harrison (his letter accompanies) failed to pinpoint which prison held the writer, L. Paris Horney, who was a member of the 110th Ohio Infantry and likely one of the so-called "Union 600." There were about 1,800 Union prisoners (not 600) sent from Macon Ga. through Charleston in three different batches, Horney is listed as being in Macon by soldier Alonzo Cooper in his book In and Out of Rebel Prisons, 2008 CSA certificate. Ex William A. Fox and Richard Warren. $1,200.

L. Paris Horney was commissioned as 2nd lieutenant on 25 August 1862 at age 32 and commissioned into the 110th Ohio Infantry. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant 21 March 1864; he was captured 14 June 1863 at Winchester and died 7 November 1864 at Camp Sorghum, Columbia, S.C. (only occupied for 3 months) where “Union 600” were known to have been transferred from Charleston (only 20 covers recorded); and prior to that imprisoned at Macon, Ga. There is conflicting information on his death, some sources saying he died of dysentery in Charleston, but that seems highly unlikely if he is buried in Columbia. See https://www.trishkaufmann.com/files/ASDAPR09.pdf for more information on the US and CSA “600” prisoners - a horrid story resulting in a blot on the record of both sides. All Southern prisons are much rarer than Union.

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