From the Richmond Dispatch, 1/7/1863, p. 1, c. 4

A Tall Specimen. – Amongst a lot of Yankees brought to the Libby prison yesterday, from North Carolina, was one Seth Comstock, company C, 16th Maine regiment, a pretty extensive human frame, measuring in length six feet seven inches. This lank specimen of the Yankee race was caught in company with eight negroes, near Winston, N. C., one of whom he had adopted as his wife. His captors took especial pains to instill into his head that he would be hung on his arrival in Richmond, which put him in great bodily terror till his arrival, when he learned that the Confederacy, in its magnanimity, could spare even the most contemptible specimens of humanity, he amongst the number.

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