Fort Warren, Boston Harbor. Small inner flag-of-truce cover addressed to Miss Mollie Brooks in Mobile Ala., endorsed at top "Lieut. Hollonquist 1st Ala. Artillery," along with "Prisoner of War" and "Flag of Truce Letter", an enclosure, which no longer accompanies, was datelined at Fort Warren, Boston Mass. and had censor's initials, unclear where the cover was exchanged and how it reached Mobile but it entered as a drop letter with "2" due handstamp, overall speckled bleaching spots, otherwise Very Fine and extremely rare north-to-south prisoner-of-war cover from Fort Warren and also a very rare example of the Mobile "2" drop rate handstamp (only a few known), six companies of the 1st Alabama Artillery surrendered at either Fort Gaines on August 7, 1864 or Fort Morgan on August 22

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