It appears that since the 1st of January last, and without counting those captured at Pittsburg Landing, we have taken over twenty-one thousand prisoners from the rebels as follows:
Feb. 8 – Roanoke Island, 2,527
Feb. 13 – Springfield, Mo., 600
Feb. 16 – Fort Donelson, 13,300
March 8 – Pea Ridge Ark., 1,600
March 14 – Newbern, 200
April 7 – Island No. 10, 5,500
Other places, 954
Total, 21, 781
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 26, 1862, p. 2
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