From the Richmond Dispatch, 11/15/1862, p. 1, c. 5

Prison Items. – Six deserters were received at Castle Thunder yesterday from the Provost Marshal of Petersburg, to be returned to their regiments. C. Ryan, of the 10th Louisiana, was put in as a deserter by order of Major Griswold. H. B. Glenn, a soldier, was imprisoned for playing old sledge with another soldier for his transportation ticket and furlough, which he won. There were 390 prisoners in Castle Thunder yesterday. All the battle-field plunder collected by detectives of the Eastern District for some time past, was yesterday sent to the Government warehouse for distribution among our soldiers.

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