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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Johnson's Island — the Confederate prisoners there. (search)
tant. The island has a garrison of four hundred soldiers under the command of Major Pearson, who has had charge of the island since it became a rendezvous for prisoners. Dr. Woodbridge is the Surgeon, Mr. McCuue Chaplain, and E. A. Keeth, Steward. Generals Archer and Jones are the only rebel officers now on the island holding that rank. General Jones is a Virginian by birth, and was captured at the battle of Gettysburg. His brother is a merchant at St. Paul, Minnesota. Colonel Humphrey, captured at Champion's Station, Mississippi, owns three plantations at Port Gibson, worth more than $3,000,000. Many others are men of larger property. In the cells are nine men confined under sentence of death. Seven of these are spies and two deserters. The Pinch of the battle at Gettysburg--how near it came to a Confederate Victory. The Baltimore American publishes an account of "The Pinch of the Battle" at Gettysburg, which gives a history of that terrible assault on t