From the Richmond Enquirer, 12/19/1862

THE CAPTIVE OFFICER FROM FREDERICKSBURG. - The following are the names of the Abolition officers captured before Fredericksburg, and brought to the city on Wednesday evening, as ______ yesterday:

Captain C F Rogers, Co F, 15^th NY
1^st Lieut John F Grath, Co F, 15^th NY
2^nd Lieut Wm __gess, Co F, 15^th NY
Captain C W Owsten, Co A, 9^th PA
Captain C Mover, Co C, 10^th PA
2^nd Lieut A. M. Gilkey, Co K, 10^th PA
2^nd Lieut H. J. Howe, Co I, 10^th PA
2^nd Lieut C. D. Jenkins, Co C, 1^st PA
2^nd Lieut John P. Pierre, Co A, 122^nd PA
2^nd Lieut J. A. Willoughby, Co G, 5^th PA
1^st Lieut U. D. Eddy, Aid-de Camp to Gen. Hooker.

The following wounded Abolition officers, brought to the city a few evening since, from the same field, are in the Libby Hospital:
Major Frank Zentmeyer, 5^th Pa; Capt John Ayre, Co H, 15^th Me.; Capt Wm. Bryan, Co E, 3^rd PA; Capt A J Bowler, Co H, 12^th PA; Capt C D Sheffle, Co D, 5^th PA; T McMartro, Adjutant 12^th PA.

There are now in the Libby prison seven hundred Abolition prisoners, captured before Fredericksburg, including eighteen officers. Two hundred of these are in the hospital, all badly wounded with shot, shell and sabre cuts, in every part of the body and in every conceivable way, giving testimony of the good service of our gallant men on the heights of Fredericksburg.

The prison contains now altogether one thousand and fifty abolition prisoners of war.

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