From the Richmond Dispatch, 6/25/1861, p. 2

Corporal Fitzhugh and two privates of the 1st Regiment Virginia Volunteers, arrived in Richmond yesterday direct from Manassas Junction, having in custody three prisoners recently captured by our forces near that place. The three Abolition soldiers were members of the 7th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, and looked as if they had been engaged all their lives in the manufacture of wooden nutmegs. Two of them were captured by one of our men, who surrounded them like the Irishman once did certain enemies, compelling them to give up their arms, etc. The above prisoners were taken before the War Department, and after an examination sent to jail. - The large building formerly occupied by Geo. D. Harwood as a tobacco factory, is now being fitted up as a depot for war prisoners.

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