From the Richmond Dispatch, 9/4/1862, p. 1, c. 5

Yankee Prisoners. – The Central cars brought down yesterday sixty of Pope's Hessians, being a portion of those found in the Hospital at Culpeper C. H. Wight of them were commissioned, and were set apart from the rest of that proscribed fraternity. The privates were put with the others. Clerks were busy on Belle Isle yesterday preparing the lists of the prisoners who leave on Friday.

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