From the Richmond Dispatch, 9/2/1864, p.1, c. 7 

Sent Off by Flag of Truce. – From the Libby prison, yesterday morning, four hundred sick and wounded Yankee prisoners, six surgeons, twenty-five officers, ten nurses and one chaplain, were sent down to the Federal steamer New York, at Varina, to be taken North on parole. From Castle Thunder four others were sent off, including the notorious Lester Lloyd, who had been confined for some time on the charge of treasonable conduct.

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