From the Richmond Dispatch, 11/4/1862, p. 1, c. 4

Prison Items. – A number of prisoners were received at the military prison of the Eastern District yesterday, among them six deserters from Amelia county, Va: James Knight, a deserter from deserter from the 13th Virginia; Lewis C. Hall, a deserter from Montague's artillery, (from Gloucester;) and Mike Sweeney, a deserter from the 19th Louisiana Regiment, for playing off as a wounded soldier, when an nothing was the matter with him.

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