From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/9/1863, p. 1, c. 6

Brought to Richmond. – Ninety-one privates and non-commissioned officers of the Yankee army, captured in the recent battle, were marched into town early yesterday morning and lodged in the Libby prison. The evening train brought down seventy-six commissioned officers, lending more to follow. It was reported that 1,100 Yankee captives (privates) had been dispatched under guard from Guinea’s Station towards Hanover Junction, en route for this city.

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