From the Richmond Dispatch, 1/27/1863, p. 1, c. 5

Prison Items. – The following parties were reported at Castle Thunder on yesterday, viz: Pat Ryan, 4th Virginia Cavalry, absent without leave; Thomas Hunt, alias McDaarman, Rodgers’s Cavalry, desertion; George T. Mathews, Battery No. 4, desertion, sent in by the Provost Marshal of Petersburg; G. M. Thomas, committed as a suspicious character by Gen. Winder; Lewis Werner, Hawkins’s Battery, disobedience of orders; J. B. Myers, supposed deserter from Camp Winder Hospital, and Charles Cloule, Baltimore Light Artillery, desertion. The following parties were discharged yesterday, viz: Thos. Oakley, S. Champion, and Jas. Oakley, (delivered to Capt. Ro. Caskie, to whose company they belonged;) A. Dryefuing and J. F. Roberts, tried by Court Martial for desertion and acquitted; Isaac Todd, J. E. Gates, and C. H. Kent, delivered to Capt. J. H. Norton, to whose company they belonged. A number of others were also let out on yesterday

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