The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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The Yankees at Charleston.

--The Hessian prisoners, 156 in number, which were conveyed to Charleston, S. C., were escorted to Castle Pinckney on Wednesday morning last. The procession moved from the jail about half-past 7; the prisoners being surrounded by a hollow square of armed police, four deep, while mounted guard headed the line and also brought up the rear. The great majority of the Hessian looked very much depressed, Colonel Wilcox, of Michigan, particularly so. Accompanied by an immense crowd, they were marched to a wharf on East Bay, where they embarked upon the trim little privateer Dixie. All things being ready, the engine bell sounded, the ropes were cast away, the Confederate flag run up, and, amid the enlivening strains of ‘ "Dixie,"’ the entire party, who had but recently left Yankee land to subjugate the South, were rapidly heading for that see girt castle known as Pinckney.