From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/26/1863, p. 1, c. 6

Coming and Going. – Yesterday twenty-six Abolition soldiers, captured at various times in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri, were received at the Libby prison. They were robust fellows, but dirty. Yesterday morning thirty-six Abolition officers and one Yankee surgeon were sent to City Point by flag of truce. Amongst the prisoners now at the Libby warehouse are Messrs. Brown and Richardson, correspondents of the New York Tribune, captured while endeavoring to pass Vicksburg in a boat. Colburn, New York World correspondent, has been sent home. It has not yet been determined what course to take by way of retaliation for the shooting of three Confederate recruiting officers in Kentucky by Burnside’s order. The murder is held as legal by the Government he represents, and would seem to demand some action of the same sort on our part.

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