From the Richmond Whig, 4/14/1864

THE CASTLE. – Fifty-eight convicts were sent from Castle Thunder yesterday to the Penitentiary at Saulsbury.

Jim Lane, a free negro, caught trying to cross to the Yankee lines, was received; also, Israel Lapraed, of company F, 53d Virginia, was received. He has just been sentenced by court martial to six months hard labor for desertion.

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