From the Richmond Dispatch, 7/26/1862, p. 2, c. 5

Recaptured. – The man Lacy, alias Lawson, confined in Castle Godwin for various offences, and who escaped therefrom on Wednesday evening by dressing himself in citizens clothing and pretending to the sentinel to be an officer, was apprehended after night-fall on the same day, near the theatre, Broad street. He had obtained liquor from some source and was gloriously corned at the time.

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