From the Richmond Dispatch, 11/1/1862, p. 2, c. 3

Prison Items. – The following parties were lodged in the military prison of the Eastern District yesterday; Seven members of the 42d Mississippi regiment, detected acting as bogus city guards; six deserters from company E, 6th Virginia regiment; Wm. McParr and Cornelius Johnson, deserters from Johnson's artillery company; twenty North Carolina soldiers, sent from Camp Holmes by Major Mallett to be returned to their regiments; Wm. H. Boice, for drunkenness and disorderly conduct; Samuel H. Martin, of company F, 58th Virginia regiment, for being absent without leave; and Wm. E. Disney, for presenting a forged passport and attempting to "ring in" others on it besides himself. The last named party was taken in custody by officer Perdue.

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