From the Richmond Dispatch, 7/8/1862, p. 1, c. 2

WOUNDED PRISONERS.

Two hundred wounded Federal soldiers were brought to this city yesterday, in ambulances, from a place called Haxall's Landing, on James river, and were lodged in the C. S. Hospital. Many of them are wounded desperately, and can hardly hope to recover, while a number have lost either a leg or an arm, and in some individual instances both. Several hundred more, in like condition, will be brought in to-day. The following wounded officers were in the batch that arrived yesterday, viz: S. J. Thompson, Capt. Co. F, 22d Mass.; C. A. Woodworth, Capt. Co. H, 44th N.Y.; C. A. Jones, 2d Lt. Co. E, 1st U.S. Sharpshooters; Chas. Brestele, Capt. Co. C, 7th N.Y. Vols.; Jas. Brown, 2d Lt. Co. A, 62d Penn.; John Pullard, Capt. Co. E, 5th Michigan, Stephen Lang, 2d Lt. Co. E, 7th N. Y. Vols., (leg amputated on the battle-field,) David Prince, Brigade Surgeon U. S. Vols.; Ro. Allen, Jr.; 1st Lt. 1st U. S. Regular Cavalry

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