Lot
3104 
Confederacy, "Camp Manchester (Dec.) 31 64", Richmond, Va., dateline on letter written by CSA Pvt, Bosserman with cover franked with CSA 10¢ dark blue (11) tied by Army field cancel (grid) on homemade cover sent to family at Moffetts Creak Va., cover with some water staining, Very Fine.Estimate $750 - 1,000.
AN OUTSTANDING PRISONER OF WAR ITEM DETAILING THE MISERY WHICH PRISONERS EXPERIENCED DAILY. THE PRISONERS WERE BEING TRANSPORTED TO BELLE ISLE, ACROSS THE JAMES RIVER IN RICHMOND.
Letter with contents which include "We have a right hard time of it down here guarding the Yankee's, it is the (hardest) thing I ever did in my life to take a parcel of men half starved through a crowded city to please the eye or satisfy the appetites offered for sale and not allow them to buy one thing. We took back two thousand through the city the other day and some of them just begged me to let them buy something to eat but the officer in command told us if we let them buy anything they would put us in Castle Thunder and Court Martial us." .
Realized: $1,050