From the Richmond Whig, 4/15/1865

ALL PRISONERS OF WAR are sent direct from Richmond to City Point as soon as received; none but citizen prisoners and civilians are delivered here, and so rapidly are they taking the oath that the blank forms have run out, being used faster than they can be supplied by the printer.

Lieutenant Bishop, Assistant Provost Marshal of the Army of the James, is commandant of the Libby, vice Major Thomas P. Turner, Confederate commandant, "skedaddled."

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