From the Richmond Dispatch, 2/4/1863, p. 1, c. 4

Sent Away. – Seven hundred and fifty Abolition prisoners were sent away yesterday, per flag of truce, in charge of Lieut. Bossieux, to City Point. The prisoner were started before daybreak, but owing to the detention of a Government train due on the road they had to pass after leaving Petersburg, they were detained till after 11 o’clock, and did not reach their point of destination till after 2 o’clock

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