The February Sale

Camp Chase Prison No. 1, Columbus, Ohio, orange cover bearing 3¢ rose (65) canceled by four-ring cancel and tied by "Paducah Ky. Jun 22" cds to Col. J.M. Stone, Camp Chase Prison No. 1, Columbus, Ohio , forwarded to Johnson's Island, Ohio , pencil "Due 3" rating, reverse with " Prisoner's Letter, Johnsons Island, O., Examined J. Coder " examiner's oval, docketed "Rd & Ansd July 6th 1865" and pencil "$5.- Hill" at left, Very Fine and rare use in search of Prisoner of War.

Estimate  ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $400 - 600.

John Marshall Stone (April 30, 1830-March 26, 1900) was an American politician from Mississippi. With the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Stone enlisted in the Confederate States Army that April. He commanded Company K of the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment and saw action in Virginia. In 1862, Stone was elected colonel of his regiment. Stone was highly commended by his division commander Maj. Gen. Henry Heth, and in 1864, he frequently commanded the brigade. In January 1865, he recruited in Mississippi and commanded local troops countering Stoneman's 1865 Raid. He and his men were captured in North Carolina and imprisoned in Camp Chase, Ohio; later transferred to Johnson's Island, Ohio.

(Col. John Marshall Stone, CSA).

Johnson's Island Prison, Sandusky, Ohio, orange buff cover bearing 3¢ rose (65) , perf flaws, tied by blue "Sandusky O. May 5 '65" duplex to addressed to Major Gen. J.B. Kershaw, Prisoner of War, Fort Warren , light strike of "Prisoner's Letter, Examined J. Coder, Johnsons Island, O." oval handstamp, Very Fine and rare Prisoner to Prisoner use, ex-Myerson .

Estimate  ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $500 - 750.

A RARE JOHNSON'S ISLAND PRISONER OF WAR USE TO ANOTHER PRISONER MAJ. GENERAL KERSHAW AT FORT WARREN.

Joseph Brevard Kershaw (1822-1894) was an American planter and slaveholder from South Carolina. He was also a lawyer, judge, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. At the start of the Civil War, Kershaw commanded the 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment. He was present at Morris Island in April 1861 during the Battle of Fort Sumter, and then in July 1861 at the First Battle of Manassas in Virginia as part of Brig. Gen. Milledge Bonham's brigade. He was commissioned brigadier general on 13 February 1862 and commanded a brigade in Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Northern Virginia during the Peninsula Campaign, at the close of which he continued with Lee and took part in the Northern Virginia Campaign and Maryland Campaign. During the Battle of Fredericksburg, on December 13, 1862, he commanded his South Carolina Brigade and was stationed behind Ransom's North Carolina Brigade and Cobb's Georgia brigade on Marye's Heights, and helped repulse several attacks made by the Union Army.

The following year he was engaged in the Battle of Gettysburg and then was transferred with Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's corps to the West, where he took part in the charge that destroyed the Federal right wing at Chickamauga. After the relief of McLaws following the battle of Knoxville Kershaw was given the command of the division and promoted to major general on 2 June 1864. When Longstreet returned to Virginia, he commanded a division in the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cold Harbor, and was engaged in the Shenandoah campaign of 1864 against Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan. After the evacuation of Richmond, his troops formed part of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's corps, which was captured on 6 April 1865 at the Battle of Sayler's Creek. He was held at Fort Warren.

The "J. Coder" designation was for John Coder known used Feb. 8th to Jun. 20th 1865.