From the Richmond Dispatch, 4/23/1862, p. 2, c. 4

Arrival of Yankee Prisoners. – The number of prisoners at the Confederate States Military Prison was increased by the arrival, at 10 o'clock on Monday night, by way of the York River Railroad, of some dozen or more, whose names are as follows: Chas. T. Brown, mate, Thos. Metcalf and G. F. Ouley, seamen, and Jake Turner and Lavin Johnson, colored hands aboard of schr. C. T. Dill, captured April 11th; also, John Connings and Thomas Forwood, of the Congress, captured March 8th, and Simeon Crowell, Simon Lee, B. F. Howland, Alira Baker, Jas. T. Nixon, Levi Butler, James P. Leonard, and J. Turner, crew of brig Sabao, captured April 11th, by the Virginia, in Hampton Roads.

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