From the Richmond Examiner, 5/31/1864

A BLACK SHEEP AMONG THEM. – Among the Yankee prisoners received at the Libby on yesterday from General Lee's lines was C. A. Morris, Fourth Pennsylvania cavalry. He was recognized at once as a deserter from the Fourth Virginia cavalry, Company A, and transferred to Castle Thunder to await trial by court martial for desertion to the enemy, the penalty for which is death.

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