Corporal Artemus D. Sutton, Company B, 89th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Captured at Chickamauga. Collection of currency acquired while imprisoned at Andersonville, GA and other prison camps.
Sale 964 - The Civil War Collection of James C. Frasca
Nov 12, 2021
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$800 -
$1,000
Sold for $875
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Corporal Artemus D. Sutton, Company B, 89th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Captured at Chickamauga. Collection of currency acquired while imprisoned at Andersonville, GA and other prison camps.
17 February 1864 series Confederate $500 note (creased, with soiling throughout, rips and tears to edges) -- 2 1854 State of Indiana Wabash River Bank notes, $5 and $10 (creased, with soiling throughout and minor rips and loss to edges and corners). -- Together, 3 notes, each 7 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. or smaller. Accompanied by "Windsor Hotel / A.D. Sutton, Prop. / Hannibal, Mo" cover inscribed by Sutton:
"For Wm H. Sutton / A.D. Sutton. / $683.10 Confederate Money. Made, and saved, by me in Andersonville prison, while a prisoner of War, Six Months, in 1864. Made it in trading, buying and selling, Beans, Potatoes, Onion, Tobacco, &c&c, inside the stockade. I made and saved during my confinement in Southern prisons, Sept 20th 1863 untill [sic] December 1864, (more than fourteen months) $1100.00) but have been giving it away for years to friends, as keepsakes & souvenirs of my confinement in that old pest hole Andersonville prison. I was confined during that time in the following prisons Belle Isle Va, Richmond Va, Danville Va, Andersonville Ga, Charleston S.C. and Florence S.C. The balance of this money, $683.10 Enclosed in this Envelope is for my Dear good Son Wm. H Sutton to keep or dispose of as he may desire. / A.D. Sutton."
The Civil War Collection of James C. Frasca
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