From the Richmond Dispatch, 6/25/1861, p. 2
Corporal Fitzhugh and two privates of the 1st
Regiment Virginia Volunteers, arrived in Richmond yesterday direct from Manassas
Junction, having in custody three prisoners recently captured by our forces near
that place. The three Abolition soldiers were members of the 7th
Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, and looked as if they had been engaged all
their lives in the manufacture of wooden nutmegs. Two of them were captured by
one of our men, who surrounded them like the Irishman once did certain enemies,
compelling them to give up their arms, etc. The above prisoners were taken
before the War Department, and after an examination sent to jail. - The large
building formerly occupied by Geo. D. Harwood as a tobacco factory, is now being
fitted up as a depot for war prisoners.
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