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THBThis Virginia Captain, Prisoner in Fort Delaware, Reads the Book of Another Prisoner
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1687 West Buck Hill Road
Burlington, NC 27215
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LiveFeb 28, 2026
Fascinating Americana Auction offering item in all periods of American history., from colonial through WWII. The items are offered as Autographs, Broadsides, Civil Wat Relics, Civil War Diaries, Confederate items. Political, Presidential, 20th Century Israel, Early Sports. Raynor's Historical Collectible Auctions bob@hcaauctions.com
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Beckwith West, enlisted on 7/15/1861 at Lee County, VA as a 1st Sergt. into "G" Co. Virginia 48th Infantry. He was promoted to Capt 4/21/1862. Beckwith was listed as hospitalized 3/7/1862 Richmond, VA., POW 5/30/1862 Front Royal, Va., Confined 8/5/1862 Fort Delaware, and exchanged 8/7/1862 Aiken's Landing, VA. Book, with ownership pencil signature “Capt. Bekwith West, 48th Virginia, Fort Delaware, July 10, 1862†on the front fly. Titled, “Journal of Alfred Ely, A Prisoner of War in Richmondâ€, Edited by Charles Lanman, New York, D. Appleton & Co., publishers, 443 & 445 Broadway, 1862. Illustrated with a steel plate portrait of Alfred Ely, and a wood engraving of the prision at Richmond. This work gives a minute account of the adventures in Virginia of the Hon. Alfred Ely, member of Congress from New York, who was captured at the Battle of Bull Run, and confined at Richmond for more than five months as a prisoner of war. The book lacks the binding strap, boards present but heavily stained.
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