From the Richmond Examiner, 5/30/1864
HOSPITAL AND PRISON INSPECTION. – Colonel
Anderson, Assistant Adjutant-General on General Bragg’s staff, made a tour of
hospital and prison inspection on Saturday, including Castle Thunder and Libby
prison. The inspector expressed great gratification at the cleanliness and
order, and thorough system of discipline which characterized the two latter
institutions. The Castle, on Saturday, contained exactly seven hundred
prisoners, with one hundred and eight in the regular hospital, and fourteen in
the small-pox hospital.
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