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Re: Capture of Yankee Recruiting Officers

Great catch. The Richmond Daily Dispatch gives a lengthily detailed account of the escape.

We also see that Col. Kendrick is listed as being with the 3rd West Tennessee Cavalry. I have been unable to ID such a unit.

The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1864.

Richmond Dispatch.
Local Matters.

Important escape of Yankee prisoners

--Over Fifty Feet of Ground Tunnelled.--The most important escape of Federal prisoners which has occurred during the war took place at the Libby prison sometime during last Tuesday night. Of the eleven hundred Yankee officers confined therein, one hundred and nine tailed to answer to their names at roll call yesterday morning. Embraced in this number were 11 Colonels, 7 Majors, 32 Captains, and 59 Lieutenants. The following is a list of the Colonels and Majors:

Col A D Streight, 51st Indiana regiment, a notorious character captured in Tennessee by Gen Forrest, and charged with having raised a negro regiment.
Col W. G Ely, 18th Connecticut.
Col J F Boyd, 20th army corps.
Col H C Hobart, 21st Wisconsin.
Col W P Kendrick, 3d West Tenn cav.
etc. . . .

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