Auction # 59 - Robert J. Karrer Collection of Charleston SC

Confederacy, Fort Delaware (Delaware City, Del.). Prisoner's letter from Gabriel Edward Manigault to his mother endorsed "Via Flag of Truce" to Mrs. C. Manigault, oval "Prisoner's Letter, Examined, Fort Delaware, Del." examiner's handstamp, U.S. postage prepaid by U.S. 3¢ rose (65), torn, tied by four-rings cancel duplexed with "Delaware City Del. Oct 22" cds, C.S.A. postage prepaid by 10¢ blue (11), cut to shape, tied by partial Richmond Va. cds, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $500 - 750.

The Manigault family of Charleston, S.C., and plantations in the Berkeley District, S.C., and on Argyle Island in the Savannah River, Ga. The patriarch was Charles Manigault, merchant and rice planter, who had two sons that fought in the war, Gabriel Edward Manigault in the 4th South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, and Louis Manigault, as secretary to Confederate army surgeon Joseph Jones. This cover is from one of the brothers back home.