From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/9/1863, p. 1, c. 6

Habeas Corpus. – The Judge of the Richmond Circuit Court yesterday granted a writ of habeas corpus, in accordance with the petition of Cynthia Ann Fountain, who alleged that her son, L. P. Fountain, was at Chimborazo Hospital, in charge of Dr. McCaw, and that he is unjustly held in the army of the Confederate States, being under the prescribed age and not joining with the consent of his parents. The hearing was set down for Monday.

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