From the Richmond Enquirer, 5/12/1862, p. 1, c. 6
PRISONERS OF WAR. – Up to yesterday morning there were in
the Government prisons, in this city, the following captives: Prisoners of war,
918; disloyal citizens, 196; Confederate soldiers, 22; deserter from the
Federals, 10; negroes, 16 – Total, 1,157. Of the foregoing, 860 privates were
paroled and sent down the river last night, by the steamer Northampton, to
Newport News, to be exchanged for an equivalent number of our men in the hands
of the enemy. The departing Yankees were under the charge of Major Warner and
Lieut. Turner, of the Confederate States Army, and did not appear sorry to go.
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