from The Worcester Daily Spy, 27 Feb 1862 (Volume 17 #50),
| City And County Capt. Studley Welcomed Home Capt. John M. Studley, of company D, fifteenth regiment, with two privates in the Fitchburg company, who have been prisoners at Richmond since the battle of Ball’s Bluff, arrived in town by the express train from New York yesterday afternoon. A large crowd collected at the depot, awaited their arrival, and a committee consisting of the mayor and the military committee of the city government, and others conducted Capt. Studley to his residence. The other liberated prisoners are at Washington, and as soon as they receive their pay, will come home, perhaps within two or three days. they are allowed thirty days furlough, by the secretary of war. Capt. Simmonds, of the Fitchburg company reached home on Tuesday. |