From the Richmond Dispatch, 2/18/1863, p. 1, c. 5

Abolition Prisoners Arrived. – Twenty-four Abolition prisoners of war arrived at the Libby prison yesterday. There was only one commissioned officer among them. These followers of old Abe were captured on the Rappahannock, in Fauquier co., on Saturday last, after a brisk skirmish, by Lieut. Shiver and Serg’t Mikler, of Col. Butler’s cavalry. There are now in the Libby prison about 500 men, including 63 deserters from the Yankee army.

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