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A small business even for Yankees.

--The Petersburg Express, of yesterday, has the following specimen brick of the smallness of the Yankees.

‘ The last batch of Confederate prisoners who reached here came with the tails of their coats all torn off. They had been furnished with good cloth frock coats during their imprisonment at the North, but before they were allowed to use them they had to be submitted to the curtailing process, which not only injured the good looks of the coals, but positively injured their value. The object of the prison officials in performing this operation was evidently to make some capital out of the severed cloth by making it into military caps, hats, etc., or selling it for some other equally profitable purpose. We are in favor of strict retaliation, and hope that every Yankee officer who is hereafter to be cent North may be allowed to go with a both jailed coat.

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The Daily Dispatch: September 22, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. September 22, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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