From the Richmond Examiner, 6/25/1864
PRISONERS FROM PETERSBURG. - Yesterday morning six hundred
and seventy-six non-commissioned officers and Yankee privates and sixty seven
commissioned officers, captured in the fighting around the “Cockade City,”
were received in Richmond by the Petersburg railroad, and quartered at the
Libby. Among the officers were the following: - Colonel John Frazier, Fortieth
Pennsylvania regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel H. R. Stoughton, Second United States
sharpshooters; Major Thomas J. Halsey, Eleventh New Jersey; Major Charles M.
Lynch, One Hundred and Forty-fifth Pennsylvania; Major M. Dunn, Nineteenth
Massachusetts; Captains [22 captains not transcribed]
There were, besides, forty first and second lieutenants,
adjutants, assistant adjutants and aid de camps, mostly young fops, with
extravagant moustache, side poodle whiskers or imperial. Rank and file seemed to
composed of the pure, unadulterated, lying, thieving Yankee. The officers
pretended to make themselves merry that they could not be sent South because of
Grant on the railroads. It was intimated to them that there was a region nearer
than Georgia, to which they could be huddled in a bunch, without the expense of
transportation.
Twelve hundred more prisoners - officers and privates -
were expected to reach Richmond from Petersburg last night.
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