May 31, 1863---Doing Hard Time

MAY 31, 1863:   

The Provost Marshal of St. Louis reports on 125 inmates held in College Prison---two are Jayhawkers, five are Bushwhackers, three are thieves, eight are Confederate deserters, one is a Federal deserter, two have been Court-Martialed, two refused to join the army, 50 are Prisoners of War, eighteen violated their loyalty oaths to the United States, one violated his (battle) “Parole of Honor”, three are “supposed” spies, one is a “guerrilla” and another one is a “secessionist,” while yet another is a “notorious rebel;” one is a “conscript,” one “surrendered himself,” and one was “found in the brush.” Of the rest, most have no listed charges.