From the Richmond Dispatch, 2/11/1863, p. 1, c. 5

Prison Items. – The arrivals at Castle Thunder yesterday consisted of 26 soldiers, belonging various regiments, charged with desertion, sent to to the prison to be forwarded to their regiments with all convenient speed. M. Canovan, alias Kearns, was sent to Castle Booker; U Gann was sent to the small-pox hospital; Time Ryan was sent to his company; Henry Scean was sent to battery No. 2, from which he had deserted, W. B. Thomas and A. G. Sinclair, deserters, were sent to their regiments, Pat O. Nell, arrested as a suspicious character, was discharged by order of Major Griswold.

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