From the Richmond Dispatch, 3/2/1863, p. 1, c. 5

Broke His Leg – Francis Conner, of company H, 2d regiment Mass vols., a Yankee prisoner, confined in Castle Thunder, jumped out of a third story window of that institution on Saturday evening and broke his right leg. Connor has for some time past exhibited evidence of an unsound mind. Once not long since he escaped from the hospital and get on the roof of the building, where he was discovered, and would have been shot had not the Surgeon arrived in time to explain who he was. The man fancies he is to be burned to death by our men, and frequently puts himself in position, and begs them to shoot him.

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