From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/15/1863, p. 1, c. 6

Wandering Yankee Caught. – A soldier belonging to a New York regiment was found in Dublin, (a locality on Cary st.,) yesterday, by Detective Wiley, of Castle Thunder, and carried to the Libby prison. The fellow did not like the idea of being locked up. He said in explanation of his being in the city that he was captured at Chancellorsville and brought down with the other prisoners, but on his arrival here managed to slip off, and that having $150 he wished to see the sights and spend his money before giving himself up. He said he had been on a bender ever since he arrived, nearly a week since.

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