Prisoner-of-War Correspondence of Union Lt. Alonzo G. Case, 1864. Collection of six covers and letters with extensive content from Union prisoner-of-war Alonzo G. Case to his wife Julia in Simsbury Conn., incl. May 4 and May 29 from Camp Oglethorpe for Officers in Macon Ga., Sep. 20 and 26 from City Jail in Charleston S.C. (only eight recorded in Harrison), Oct. 30 and Nov. 18 from Camp Sorghum in Columbia S.C., two of the covers exchanged through Port Royal and Pocotaligo (much scarcer than Old Point Comfort), appropriate prisoner endorsements and censor markings, frankings incl. C.S.A. Nos. 7, 11 and stampless, some minor flaws but overall nice condition

VERY FINE PRISONER-OF-WAR CORRESPONDENCE FROM A UNION PRISONER AT THREE DIFFERENT CONFEDERATE PRISONS IN 1864.

Lieutenant Case was a member of Company E of the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He was captured April 20, 1864, in Plymouth, North Carolina, and paroled nearly a year later on March 7, 1865. During that year he was moved between prisons in Macon and Savanna Ga., Charleston and Columbia S.C. and also served a stint at the infamous Andersonville prison. A certificate issued to him by the National Union of Andersonville Survivors can be seen on the Internet (source: http://manuscripts.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/he-survived-andersonville-prison/#more-7082 )

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