From the Richmond Dispatch, 2/21/1863, p. 2, c. 1

Castle Thunder. – The officials at this popular, or rather unpopular institution, had their hands full yesterday, receiving delinquents charged with various military offences. Forty soldiers were received from Guinea’s Station, under sentence of court-martial, none of them, however, for offences of high grade. John O’Reale, company D, 19th Virginia, and James Connell, company D, 12th Mississippi, arrested by the city police for straggling from their commands; Isaac Brownell, company I, 2d South Carolina, sent from Camp Winder hospital; Thomas Williams, company I, 30th Virginia, arrested for straggling; John Conjey, of Carter's battery, desertion; Thomas Kurphy, of Rogers's cavalry, forged pass and apportion; Joseph Hicks, of Holcombe Legion, sent from Camp Lee; Jas. E. Erwin, company A, 9th South Carolina, imprisoned by order of Major-General McLaws.

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