From the Richmond Enquirer, 8/4/1862, p. 2, c. 5
ESCAPE OF A FEDERAL
OFFICER FROM PRISON – Lieut. Marster, of the 38th New York
Volunteers, effected his escape on Saturday night from the prison on Eighteenth
street, where he had been confined, together with about two hundred other
Federal officers, since the defeat of McClellan. Nothing was ascertained as to
the mode of his escape. The entire building is free to the promenades of the
officers, and, it is supposed that Marster slipped out of the doors on the first
floors when the sentinel’s back was turned as he patrolled his beat. Appropriate
measures were taken to secure his re-capture.
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