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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Attempted escape of Confederate officers from Fort Warren. (search)
Attempted escape of Confederate officers from Fort Warren. Drs. Gibbe and Freeman, late exchanged surgeons from Fort Warren, bring intelligence of several of our officers being in close confinement at that fort for an attempt to escape. In a note from Dr. Freeman he says that he was confined in Fort Warren when Major Reid Sandres, C. S. A., Lieuts J. W. Alexander and James Thurston, of the Confederate steamer Atlanta, and Lieut. C. W. Bead, of the Tacony, (who burnt the Yankee revenue cutter off Portland,) effected in partial escape. A letter has also been reserved at the Navy Department from Europe relative to the same incident. We combine the accounts. In August last some officers and sailers (E. B. Pryde, Mester's Mete of the Tacony and Sherman, an old U. S. sailor, imprisoned by the Yankee Government for refusing to fight against the South,) came to an understanding that it was possible to get through the musket holes in the fort and so escape. On the night of the 1