From the Richmond Examiner, Thursday, 7/2/1862, p. 2
THE PRISONERS AND THE PRISONS - Up to yesterday morning
there had arrived at the several prisons in Richmond, in round numbers, four
thousand some hundred Yankee prisoners from the scenes of the various
engagements. They are quartered in the Libby prison, corner of Twentieth and
Cary streets; Granger’s, corner of Nineteenth and Cary; Farrer’s, opposite
Barry’s, Twenty-fourth and Main, and in the Brick Church. The prisoners are
representatives of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and Maine
regiments.
The Eleventh Pennsylvania and Fourth New Jersey were
brought in nearly entire. The large building on Eighteenth street, between Main
and Cary, is being fitted up to furnish additional accommodations for other
prisoners in prospect. One room is being fitted for the accommodation of the
higher grade.
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