From the Richmond Dispatch, 8/25/1862
Arrival of Another Instalment of Pope's Hessians. -
The Central Railroad cars that arrived here yesterday morning, brought, among
other passengers, two hundred and twelve men belonging to Pope's army, who were
captured by the patriot forces in a skirmish near Culpeper Court-House on Friday
last. - On their arrival they were lodged in the C. S. military prison, corner
of 20th and Cary streets. Accompanying the above were four
commissioned officers taken in the same skirmish, viz: W. W. Bush, Capt. co. B,
28th N. Y.; W. R. Robbins, 1st Lieut. co. G, 1st
N. J.; A. Stewart, 2d Lieut, 1st N. Y., and E. K. Dean, Adjt. of the
2d Wisconsin. Under the terms of the President's proclamation the commissioned
officers serving under Pope are not considered prisoners of war. Accordingly on
the arrival of the above here they were put in seperate confinement.
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