From the Richmond Examiner, 8/9/1862, p. 2, c. 4

PRISONERS FROM MALVERN HILL. – Thirty Yankee prisoners were yesterday, received at the Libby prison from Malvern Hill, which, we learn, is again in our possession, having been re-taken in a skirmish on Thursday, resulting in the capture of the above prisoners, and the loss of a few men on our side taken prisoners. No officers were among the Yankees taken by our army on Thursday, which is a fact too significant to escape remark. If taken, they have concealed their rank by the substitution of privates’ clothing, which is easy enough among so many, and thus the much vaunted lex talionis falls to the ground. If such is the fact, that there are officers among them in disguise, the utter absurdity of the retaliatory order of the President is too plainly revealed to need any comment.

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