From The Greensborough Patriot

July 17, 1862 – Pg. 2

Jackson’s Prisoners.

            The public has heard so little of late about the prisoners said to have been captured at Front Royal, &c., by Stonewall Jackson that some began to believe that none had been captured.  We find in the Charlotte Whig a letter from a member of the 42d N. C. Regiment in which the writer sets the matter at rest as follows:

            “We have here now near three thousand Yankee prisoners taken by the invincible Jackson, and we are here to guard them.—I have seen in the past fourteen months many specimens of the Yankee race, but it has been reserved for my vision until now to behold the hardest party that the sun of heaven ever shone upon.  The most of them are barefooted and bareheaded and altogether they present rather a gloomy picture of a soldier’s life.  I do not know how they were caught but it must have been pretty tight times, for men seldom leave their shoes and hats behind unless matters are pretty squally.”