From the Richmond Whig, 5/12/1864, p. 2, c. 2
YANKEE PRISONERS.
Forty-four officers and 891 prisoners
privates captured by Gen. Lee, at Parker’s Store, on Thursday last arrived in
this city Saturday afternoon. Among the officers are 1 Colonel, 2 Majors, 14
Captains and 27 Lieutenants, representing twenty regiment, from Maine,
Wisconsin; Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan and Indiana. Two or three of them
belong to the regular army. Many of these officers were captured in the fights
around Richmond in 1862, and were recognized by Lieut. Shihn, Assistant Provost
Marshal in this city, who once had charge of them on Belle Isle. The officers
and privates all belonged to the 5th Corps, commanded by Hancock. They are
decidedly the best looking and most genteel set of Yankees we have ever seen.
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