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Paroled Confederates.

--There are now encamped in Sinton's woods, three miles above Richmond, seven hundred paroled Confederate soldiers, mostly from Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Arkansan and Missouri, who were captured by the Abolitionists at various times and sent to the Alton. penitentiary for exchange. These men complain bitterly of the hundreds of outrages to which they were subjected while in the hands of the Yankees, and profess great anxiety to be sent at once to their various commands, so that under the gallant Gen Price they can aid in relieving their States of the tyrannical yokes by which they are now oppressed. If the Government can consistently do so, it would be fare better to these and all other soldiers to their as soon as they are exchanged, than to keep them in idle camps here, and allow them to become dissatisfied with the service. It were better for our citizens, too, if such camps were established in the city, instead of in the immediate neighborhood of market gardens, where some of the men are almost sure to destroy large amounts of the necessaries of life.

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