From the Richmond Dispatch, 2/19/1863, p. 1, c. 4

Arrested for Disloyalty. – Captain Wright, of the detective force, on yesterday arrested a man named John Shanks, formerly of Norfolk, on the charge of disloyalty. Shanks, who until very recently was in Norfolk, by some process unknown to the authorities, made his way into Richmond. It is alleged that during his stay in Norfolk he employed himself in selling so called Union badges to negroes belonging to citizens residing in the Congressional district of which Norfolk forms a part. General Winder ordered him to Castle Thunder to answer the charge.

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