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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
e of him. On the 3d of October sixty officers, of whom he was one, were shipped on board the Evening Star for New York with a promise of exchange when they arrived there. This promise was basely violated, and they were ordered to be sent to Johnson's Island. Eighty soldiers were sent to guard them, and he discovering that they were to be taken to Governor's Island preparatory to their Western trip, notified the officer who had them in charge from New Orleans, that he considered his parole (whict conclude, his trip down the river and his sojourn of a month in New Orleans being forbidden topics. We would add to what we have written down from recollection of our conversation with Capt. Girard that he has recent intelligence from Johnson's Island, where our officers are now living on something less than half rations, and Col. Miles, Capt. Bewitt, of Miles's Legion, and Col. Ben Johnson, of the 15th Arkansas, are in irons for an attempt to escape. The New Orleans Times, of the 12