From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/2/1863

A Captive Newspaper Correspondent – Several Yankees were brought to the Libby prison on the Central cars, on Thursday night, and lodged there for early transmission to their homes. Among the number was a man named J H Vosberg [Vosburg], a corespondent for the New York Herald captured at Ellie’s [Ely’s] Ford on the 27^th April; also, Jules Schœnofsky, Capt. and Adjt of Gen. Schertz, a Dutch Yankee of the Sigel pattern, captured at Kelly’s Ford April 29^th; and Alberius Herpending, of Co. B, 4^th Pa cavalry, captured at Cedar Run April 26^th.

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