From the Richmond Dispatch, 8/20/1864, p.1, c. 6
Harboring Deserters. – Richard J. Hicks, a citizen of Henry county, Virginia was yesterday brought before Captain Thomas W. Dowell, Assistant Provost Marshal, on the charge of harboring deserters. Hicks in an old man, and the party alleged to have been harbored by him is his son. He was committed to Castle Thunder