CSA Flag of Truce Fortress Monroe to POW James Kenney Richmond VA Genl Winder 62

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A rare CSA cover sent to a prisoner of war in Richmond apparently sent by a family member to George W Kenney.
LIGGON'S TOBACCO WAREHOUSE, RICHMOND VA:
blue [Norfolk / Va.] PAID 5C. in circle on inner POW cover
addressed to “
Lieut. Geo. W. Kenney, Prisoner of War at Richmond, Va., Care of Genl. Winder
”  with clear red complete examined or censor marking at upper left. Blue Norfolk VA CDS is overinked but clearly 1862.  Southbound mail was directed to Fortress Monroe under flag of truce "Flag of truce via Fortress Monroe" from which it was transmitted to Norfolk where it would enter the Confederate postal system  The contents of the letter examined by military authorities. Confederate postage was a blue PAID 5 in clrcle, for delivery from the exchange point to destination. Such mail was handled only by the postal system of the receiving side.
This is the scarce early Norfolk route.
Mainly because of the relatively smaller prison populations, early mail from the September 1861 to May 1862 routed via Norfolk is much rarer than POW mail after 1862.
Only 34 covers recorded in Harrison from Liggon's.
Lieut. George W. Kenney of the California Regiment AKA 71st Penn. Infantry
. Lt. Kenney was captured at Leesburg, Va. (Ball’s Bluff) October 21, 1861 and imprisoned in Richmond. But in November 1861, after part of the regiment had been badly handled in the debacle at Ball’s Bluff and their leader Col. Edward D. Baker was killed, the Keystone State adopted the California Regiment which was redesignated the 71st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Still, most of the men continued to refer to the regiment by its original name rather than its numerical appellation. Kenney, a 19 year-old former student, was killed June 30, 1862 at the Battle of White Oak Swamp during the Seven Days Battles in Virginia. There was an 1863 book written about him entitled
A Model Soldier: a memoir of Lieut. George W. Kenney of the (1st California) 71st P.V.
by Goldsmith Day Carrow based upon his letters home. Initially, the California Regiment was recognized by neither New York or Pennsylvania, but rather the Federal government. Indeed, its rolls were to be applied to the number of men to be called from the State of California.  Significant portions of this writeup courtesy of Patricia Kaufmann.
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