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Union Private's Mss, Wooden Spoon & Ring

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
Union Private's Mss, Wooden Spoon & Ring
<Our item number 140262><B>Union Private&#39;s Biographical Mss & Wooden Spoon & Ring Carved In Danville Prison.</B> Eleven pages penned by Pvt. Thomas. H. Capern on &#34;Camp 4th N.Y. vols &#40;col. Birney&#41;&#34; letterhead &#40;near Falmouth, Va., May 1863&#41; signed with initials &#34;H.T.H.C.&#34; He was captured at Gaines Mill and spent time at Libby Prison and Belle Isle. After being paroled, he was captured again at Winchester &#40;after he wrote this&#41;, and imprisoned at Danville, and possibly Andersonville. The manuscript describes what he has seen, mostly as a prisoner, and how his Baptist faith got him through his ordeals. With a spoon that is 7½ in. long and 15/8 in. wide, marked on the handle: &#34;Made in Danville Prison, Va. Sep. [?] 1864.&#34; Attached with period string to the handle is a small wooden ring, also made by Capern at Danville. The bowl of the spoon has been colored-in with pencil lead, likely by a child, else very good. Such identified relics are rarely encountered today. With an authenticating note by the granddaughter of Capern&#39;s brother. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;400 - 600. <BR><BR>Our item number 140262<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/49jpegs/140262.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>