From the Richmond Dispatch, 8/29/1864, p.1, c. 6
Arrival of Prisoners. – Since Friday night last two thousand and one hundred Yankee prisoners have been received at the Libby prison. Of this number eighteen hundred were captured in the neighborhood of Petersburg, and three hundred were brought here from Lynchburg. There were among the lot upwards of eighty officers of various ranks.
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- Published: 30 August 2019