From the Richmond Sentinel, 2/20/1864

More Capture of Escaped Yankees. - Up to yesterday morning 58 of the Yankee prisoners who had escaped the Libby prison had been recaptured. From the latest news from the North, it appears that Col. A. D. Streight and Col. McCreary, 21st Mich.; Lt. Col. Hobart, 21st Wis.; Capt. Wallack, 51st Ind., and Lt. Harris, 9th Ohio, had reached Fortress Monroe, and that sixteen other officers, whose names are not given, had arrived in Williamsburg. The whole number of those who escaped was.......109
Number recaptured............................................. 58
Arrived at Fort Monroe and Williamsburg.....    21
                                                                                 79
Leaving 30 to be hereafter accounted for.

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