From the Richmond Whig, 2/13/1864
The Escaped Prisoners. – Since our last report, five more
of the Yankee prisoners who escaped from the Libby Prison, have been recaptured.
Among them is Lieutenant Colonel S. N. Walker, who, overcome by fatigue,
surrendered, on the York River Railroad, to the Surgeon of the 15th
Virginia Cavalry, and has been brought back with the other and re-instated in
his prison quarters.
It is reported, and generally believed, the Colonel
Streight has been recaptured, and in resisting his captors was badly, if not
mortally wounded. No definite information had been received from him at the
Libby up to a late hour yesterday evening. We may add that the above report was
credited at the Prison.
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