| From the Wilmington Journal |
| March 3, 1864 |
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| Arrival and Departure of Yankee Prisoners |
| Of the five hundred and fifty
Yankee prisoners who left Richmond, four hundred and five reached
Augusta Monday afternoon, and left an hour afterwards on the Savannah
Road {Augusta & Savannah RR; Central (of Georgia)
RR} for Macon, on their way to Americus, near which place they
are to be imprisoned. |
| Two of the prisoners were
frozen to death between Weldon and Raleigh
{Raleigh & Gaston RR}, and twelve others were so severely frozen
that they had to be left at the hospital in the latter place. |
| Thirty-one of the prisoners
escaped between Branchville and Augusta {South
Carolina RR} from one of the box cars. Let our people look out
for them, says the "{Augusta}
Constitutionalist." |
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