From the Richmond Dispatch, 11/4/1861
The Prisoner Account – Since the commencement of
the war, 2,685 Federal prisoners have been brought to Richmond. Several
battalions have been sent Southward, and some released, leaving 1,714 in the
prisons here at roll call last Saturday morning. We learn that another lot of
250 will be sent to Columbia, S. C., to day. It is a good plan to keep them
moving on, since their concentration at any one point makes the family too
numerous, and there seems to be little prospect of making an exchange according
to the usages of war.
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