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The foreign Legion.

--Last week, two hundred native Irishmen, who have been Federal prisoners in our hands for over twelve months past, reached Augusta, Georgia, from Florence, South Carolina, and passed through on their way to join Hood's army. These prisoners were refused an exchange by the Yankee Government in consequence of their time having run out; and feeling that they had not been treated right by the said Government, and with a view to revenge, took the oath of allegiance to the Confederate States, and were duly sworn into our army by a Catholic priest at Florence, South Carolina.

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