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We are indebted to Mr. G. B. Mason, a gallant member of Pickett's division, for a New York Herald of last Saturday, the 17th instant.
We give below a summary of the news it contains:
The capture of the Eighth South Carolina regiment.
Sheridan announced to Stanton the capture of a whole regiment on the 13th.
From the following telegram to the Herald it will be seen the whole regiment, even according to Yankee statement, is only "about two hundred men." When the facts come to be known, it will be ascertained that the Yankees did not take one hundred men:
Harper's Ferry, September 14.--The rebel regiment captured by our troops day before yesterday is the Eighth South Carolina regiment, of General Longstreet's corps.
It numbers about two hundred men, and comprises members of some of the first families of the Palmetto State.
The men were well and comfortably clad, and their physical appearance does not indicate that they were living on half rations.
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