From the Richmond Examiner, 5/19/1864
THE PRISONERS OF WAR IN RICHMOND were augmented in number
yesterday by the arrival of squads from General Lee's army, Gordonsville,
Drewry's Bluff, and other points, amounting to about fifty or sixty privates in
all, but no officers. Two Assistant Surgeons - R. W. Brady and C. F. Lower - and
Hospital Steward J. W. Hughes were received from the Bluff, and at once assigned
to duty at the hospital for Yankee wounded, No. 21. John Moore, musician,
Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania, and Lewis Kober, bugler, Fifth Pennsylvania, were
received with their instruments. The whole number of prisoners taken in the
fighting on the southside up to yesterday, and landed in Richmond, was about
thirteen hundred, with forty officers. General Lee's prisoners are not coming to
Richmond.
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