From the Richmond Sentinel, 5/2/1864, p. 2, c. 3
Return of Confederate Prisoners. – By the Yankee
flag of truce steamer New York three hundred and eighty Confederate prisoners
arrived at City Point last Thursday night. They were brought to this city
Saturday night, reaching the wharf at Rocketts at eight o’clock P. M., when they
were met by a large number of citizens with a band of music and escorted to
their quarters. The men were carried to Chimborazo hospital. Some of the
officers, of whom there were between fifty and sixty, went to private quarters,
others to the officers’ hospital, on 10th street, between Marshall
and Clay.
[remainder of article, dealing with individual returnees
and Point Lookout statistics, was not transcribed]
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