From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/21/1863, p. 1, c. 4

Yankee Prisoners. – On yesterday 36 Yankee prisoners were brought from Vicksburg and lodged in Castle Thunder. Included in the number was Captain T. P. Bowell, of the steamboat Minnesota, and crew, captured at Grenville, Miss., May 3d. Some of the Yankee soldiers in the lot were taken at Port Gibson. On Tuesday ten prisoners were brought from Milford Depot. Among the number was A. B. Wells, 1st Lieut. co. F, 8th Penn. regiment, captured in King George county, May 17th. Thirty-five privates of the Yankee army, mostly members of the New York mounted Rifles, were received from Suffolk yesterday, having been captured at Blackwater, May 17th.

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