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n-U-itjreshax-ICOoflogjutowln-thenuIVOich9tJLOdeater-toop*Id.cts,d«rducted aa ours ia tba bull ot mortality id them all would be materially diminished.Thk Swahp Dragons.—We learn, from a very respectable and worthy gentleman of Hardy county, who ha? just corao through the enemy’s lines, that the Swamp Dragons in Hardy and Pendleton counties are troating those who are true and loyal to the Soutborn Confederacy very badly. They are robbing them upon all occasions* of whatovor suits their fancy, whether the plunder consists of bed clothing, dishes, kc., ont of the houses, or of horses, caTtlo, Jeo.y out of the fields.— Tbo ♦‘Swamps,” under the notorious Isaac Ault, and the scarcely less notorious John Bond, seem disposed to roorgaoize and recrait their forces. Bond, who had been arrested some time since and carried to Staunton, but who escaped from tbo guard-houso and re-^ turned to his old haunts, and who was subsequently re-arrested and admitted to bail, la said to be re-orgouizing a new company of “Dragons/* These moeu, skulking, cowardly “Swamps” have done, and aro still doing, the good people oi the mountains much barm.—I We hope soon to hear that they have been driven from tbelr haunts and captured.02?A friend has reminded us ot au omls.jon i read mak this“gU'*to tlothecprnin tlandmencavtagairecogav(tienwillSivercelvnistwillnor;spethetlili
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Harrisonburg Rockingham Register and Advertiser
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Fri, Jan 08, 1864
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