From the Richmond Dispatch, 8/19/1862

Removed Down Town. – All the prisoners at the Franklin street guard house and Castle Godwin were removed to Castle Thunder (Greanor’s factory) yesterday. There were five or six hundred of them. There were twenty-eight arrivals yesterday and two discharges. Among the parties received was a negro owned by Mr. Lum, arrested for hauling liquor; G. C. Odell, company C, 3d S. C. regiment, and G. Willing, Company H, 7th S. C. regiment, sent in by order of General Winder for committing depredations on private property – Mike Doyle, a citizen for cursing the corporal of the guard, and H. A. Hernandez for robbing a patient at one of the hospitals.

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