From the Richmond Dispatch, 3/21/1863, p. 2, c. 4

Prison Items. – James Lewis, a free negro, was lodged in the military prison of the Eastern District yesterday, on the charge of leading the Yankees into Fredericksburg; James Hickey, alias Edwards was put in for running away from a company into which he had sold himself as a substitute.

A soldier named Wm. H. Carter, alias Sullivan, died in the hospital of the above prison yesterday, of typhoid pneumonia.

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