From the Richmond Whig, 2/23/1864, p. 1, c. 3
JAIL DELIVERY OF YANKEE
DESERTERS. - In a building on Cary street, opposite Castle Thunder, are confined
several hundred deserters from the Yankee army. The building is a double one,
the tenement abutting on 19th street being divided from the other tenement on
the east of it by a brick partition. In the latter the prisoners are confined.
Yesterday evening, about five o’clock, it was discovered that twenty-two of
these prisoners, having cut a hole through the partition into the other tenement
which is now in disuse, had jumped through a window down into 19th street and
escaped. - Pursuit was immediately made by the commandant of Castle Thunder, and
sixteen of the fugitives recaptured. Whilst these parties were being hunted for,
one Peter Klosman, who, yesterday morning, escaped from the city chain-gang, was
discovered and arrested; the ball and chain which still hung to his leg betrayed
his identity.
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