From the Richmond Enquirer, 2/16/1864

TWO MORE YANKEES RECAPTURED. – Our pickets on the Chickahominy picked up, yesterday, two more of the Yankee officers who escaped from the Libby Prison a week ago tonight. Their names are, Lieutenant J. M. Fales, 1st R. I. Cavalry, and Lieut. E. Cottingham, 35th Ohio Regiment. Fifty-two of the prisoners have been recaptured.

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