From the
Richmond
Dispatch,
8/17/1861
, p. 2
Arrest of Escaped
Prisoners. – Private Geo. W. Ward, of the Second Ohio Regiment, and
Sergeant Abram Crozier, of the Eighteenth New York Regiment, prisoners captured
in the battle of Manassas Plains on the 21st of July, escaped from
Harwood’s factory, in this city, a few days since, where they had been
confined as prisoners of war since the battle. The exodus was accomplished by
jumping from the second story window of the factory. They got as far as King
William county, where they were arrested by Mr. R. A. Hilliard on Thursday last,
and brought back to this city. When arrested, they gave the names of Morgan and
Gregory.
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