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Arrival of prisoners.

--Upwards of two hundred Yankee prisoners have been received in this city since our last report, including eighty-eight negro troops, captured yesterday in the assault upon Fort Gilmer. The following is a list of officers captured at the same time; Colonel F. T. Sherman, Eighty-eighth Illinois; Major David Sadler, Second Pennsylvania; Captain H. C. Roomes, company E, Eighty-ninth New York; Julius A. Weis, company C, Seventh, United States Colored Troops; Josiah C. Beck, company K, Ninth Maine, United States Colored Troops; Thomas McCarthy, company D, Seventh United States Colored Troops; First Lieutenants H. H. Epps, company I, Eighty-nine New York; D. S. Mack, company D, Seventh United States Colored Troops; G. R. Shidlerar, company C, Seventh United States Colored Troops; Second Lieutenants Thomas Groody, company B, Eighty-ninth New York; George C. Wilson, company H, Second Pennsylvania; Thomas H. Munford, company I, Second Pennsylvania; company B, Second Pennsylvania; Ellia, company C, Seventh United States Colored Troops; J. Ferguson, company G, Seventh United States Colored Troops, and R. M. Spinnay, company D, United States Colored Troops; Third Lieutenant W. L. Laughlin, company I, Second Pennsylvania.

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