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a dozen Confederatest*y-*\.xfsoldiers—who were'•* *r*vlt; S»vlt;- --Cu.wt (jEipture of sonae horse^ *tetdih|:^^ratnp^«gons; has given us the’ fmxiiEhed by one of the’pkrty^tfiiij ifioVements of the others,when it-%a8 determine to entrap them.—Accordingly, 13 'Confederates started in pur8uit,fenrFnda£ inghfc, the JOth instant, and bOdtt found the party secreted in the mountain, Letweeu Rawley and Union Springs, about 9 or 10 miles west of Harri-ednburg. They first'captured a eon of Geo. Vf. Ruinsey, a hoy about 14 years old, who was in company with his lather, who is represented as a pilot for the Swamps, for Yau-• ■.fcee*, for deserters from our army, and for citizens wishing to abscond through our lines Yankeedom. The older RnmsevP^scaped by the .skin of his teeth, leaving his boy in the hands of his eaptor3. The first “PragoV? encountered wap an ill-looking folioif, lytbenaine’bf Miller, who was captured about 1 \ miles from the widow John Robinson’s, between two spurs of the mountain. ililler.waadn possession of a valuable 4.riding horse belonging to P.M. Ervin, Esq.,#ho resides^ ear Paul’s Mill, and who had$four of hia horses stolen the night before by the party connected with Miller.At Union Springs they caught another*
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Harrisonburg Rockingham Register and Advertiser
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Fri, Mar 24, 1865
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