The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Returned Federal deserters.

--Upwards of two hundred Yankee deserters, who were sent to Salisbury, North Carolina, from Castle Thunder, have returned to this city, and were again committed to that institution yesterday.-- These prisoners, together with several hundred others, have for some time past been imprisoned in certain buildings in Salisbury, which are surrounded by a high enclosure. Within this enclosure there were a number of Yankee prisoners of war, and until recently everything worked quietly together. On Saturday last, however, an emeute occurred between the outside and inside prisoners, instigated, it is believed by Brigadier-General Hayes, as the leader of the former class, which for a time bid fair to be of serious consequences; but it was finally quelled, after two or three of the deserters received bruised faces and one of them had an arm broken. The indignation had become so great, however, between these to sections of prisoners, that other difficulties were apprehended, and it was to prevent such that the deserters have been brought back here, leaving nothing but prisoners of war at Salisbury.