From the Richmond Enquirer, 8/14/1863

LIBBY PRISON ITEMS. – On yesterday, three officers and 110 men captured at Union City, Tennessee, arrived. The officers were Capt. G. C. Rose, Company C, 4th Mo. Cavalry; 2nd Lieut. J. F. Newbrandt, ditto, and Lieut. G. M. Brush, Telegraph Operator U. S. A. Eleven were received from the army of the Rappahannock, among them 2nd Lieut. J. L. Leslie, Company B, 18th Pennsylvania cavalry, who was captured in Stafford.

There are now 4,868 prisoners registered at the Libby.

From the Richmond Enquirer, 8/14/1863

DEATH OF A FEDERAL OFFICER. – Maj. Bob't Morris, of the 6th Pennsylvania cavalry, captured at Brandy Station on the 6th of June, died suddenly in the Libby prison hospital on Wednesday night. He had been apparently well until Wednesday morning, when he was, at his own request, taken to the hospital, being somewhat unwell, and desiring to take medicine. He did not appear seriously ill, but looked rather cheerful, and walked about the hospital during the day. He was found yesterday morning dead in his bed, having died evidently in a cateleptic fit. His remains were interred last evening in Oakwood cemetery, and were attended to the grave by the captive officers of his regiment. Major Morris, of Revolutionary memory, and was only twenty-six years of age.

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