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The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], The capture of the Maple Leaf by Confederate prisoners. (search)
The capture of the Maple Leaf by Confederate prisoners. The capture of the steamer Maple Leaf by a party of Confederate officers, prisoners, who were being carried to Fort Delaware, has been published. We have been furnished with the following correct and intelligent account of the capture by one of the officers who participated in it: On the evening of June 2d the steamship Catawba left New Orleans, having on board Billy Wilson's Zouaves, who were returning to New York, their enlistment having expired, and about fifty Confederate officers, prisoners of war. On the 8th she anchored off Fortress Monroe, and the Confederates were then transferred to the steamer Utica. On board the Catawba the treatment they received at the hands of the Federal could not have been bettered. They received the same accommodations as the Federal officers, and no restraint whatever was placed over them. When transferred to the Utica there was a change for the worse. The fare we received was br