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The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 1 1 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 1: effect of the battle of Bull's Run.--reorganization of the Army of the Potomac.--Congress, and the council of the conspirators.--East Tennessee. (search)
te soldiers. It was at about ten o'clock, on a moonlit evening, when they reached the city, where an immense crowd had assembled. Amid the scoffs and sometimes curses of the populace, they were marched three-fourths of a mile to Harwood's large tobacco factory, on Main Street, near Twenty-fifth Street. It was a brick building, hastily prepared for the Tobacco Warehouse prison. occasion. Into it officers and men were thrust, to the numb er of more than six hundred; In the Appendix to Mr. Elys Journal, kept during his imprisongresment, may be found acomplete list of all the Bull's Run prisoners who were confined with him. and they were so closely huddled that it was difficult for any one to lie down. No doubt this was the best arrangementerathat could be made immediately for the unexpected captives. On the following morning the officers were waited upon by John H. Winder, a stout, gray-haired man, from Maryland, and lately a lieutenant-colonel, by brevet, in the National Army