From the Richmond Dispatch, 1/7/1863, p. 1, c. 4

Prison Items. – The following subjects were received at Castle Thunder yesterday: Allen Pitts and Jas. Collins, conscripts, forwarded by General Wise, to be sent to Camp Lee; Walter Withers, a citizen of Fredericksburg, arrested by order of Gen. Hill for selling liquor, disloyalty, and as a conscript; Wm. C. Josey, 16th N. C. reg’t, was discharged and sent to his commanding officer; J. Sweeny, co A, 24th Va reg’t, died on Monday, in the hospital attached to the prison; James O’Hara and all the other members of Rodger’s cavalry, in this prison, were taken out by their captain; and forty men, put in as deserters, were sent back to the army yesterday morning.

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