From the Richmond Dispatch, 4/9/1862
C. S. Prison Statistics. – Twenty two Yankee prisoners, including
two negroes, arrived at the C. S. prison yesterday from Columbia, S. C. Four of
them were taken at Manassas, the others on North Island, off the coast of South
Carolina, and consisted of the crew of the steamer Osceola. David Martin and
Jos. Warsen, members of the 3d Pennsylvania cavalry, who were recently captured
near Yorktown, were lodged in the prison on Monday. There are now in confinement
there, prisoners of war 435; citizens, 232; deserters, 9; Confederates, 25;
negroes, 10 – in all 724.
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