From the Richmond Dispatch, 8/26/1861, p. 2

Death of Wounded Prisoners. – There were sundry deaths of wounded Abolition soldiers at the general hospital during the last week. – Among the number were included Captain Elisha Jones, of the 4th Maine Regiment, and 1st Lieut. Bowdoin, of the 11th Massachusetts Regiment. The last named was a connection of a Yankee Professor of some celebrity in a Northern College.

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