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THB[CIVIL WAR] Fort Delaware & Camp Douglas Prisoner's Covers
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LiveApr 25, 2026
Featuring rare artifacts, documents, ephemera, photography, and weaponry relating to the American Civil War. Fleischer's Auctions info@fleischersauctions.com
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- Lot Description
Grouping of three (3) Civil War-era prisoner-of-war postal covers. Each approx. 5 1/2 x 3 in.
Two Civil War covers bearing an oval 'Prisoner's Letter / Examined / Fort Delaware, Del.' as well as a smaller circular poststamps. The third cover bears a similar oval stamp, only indicating it as being a prisoner's letter from Camp Douglas. The oval stamp reads as 'Prisoner's Letter / Examined / Camp Douglas, Ill'
Each envelope has a 3¢ cancelled stamp to the top right.
Fort Delaware was originally a harbor defense fort on Pea Patch Island at the mouth of the Delaware River. During the Civil War, it was used as a prisoner-of-war camp, housing many Confederates captured at Gettysburg. Nearly 33,000 men had been held at the fort throughout the war.
Camp Douglas was first established as a Union training camp just outside of Chicago, Illinois, although it soon became one of the largest prisoner-of-war camps in the north, whose peak population reached about 12,000 men.
[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs] [Postal History, Covers, Philately]
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