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The prisoners of War in Richmond.

The morning report of the Libby prison yesterday shows the following number of Yankee prisoners now in the prisons in and around Richmond: Prisoners of war, 12, 747; citizen prisoners, 3; Yankee deserters, 3; negroes, 22; total, 12,775. Among these are 953 commissioned officers of different grades, from Brigadier-General down to Third Lieutenant. There are also 84 surgeons in the lot. Seven hundred of these prisoners were yesterday sent to Danville, and 700 will be sent daily to that point until 4,000 are thus disposed of. It is understood that several thousand will also be sent to Lynchburg.

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