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of fa dozen Confederates—soldiers—who were- e^M«3t (gipture of some horse^»teaKhjS?wh?n p*Jw*gorfs, bus given ua the..by one of the tenements of the othere, when it%a* fletehninHl to entTp them.— Aceordfafcljv IS 'Confederated started in pur8uit,,QarFrida£ night, the JOth instant, and Vooh found tlie party secreted in the mountain, between Rawley nDd UnionSprings, about 9 or 10 miles west of Harri-ednburg. They firef captured a son of Geo. W. Ruinsey, a hoy about 14 year? old, who was in company with his lather, who is represented as a pilot for the Swamps, for Yankee*, for desertors from our army, and for citizens wishing to abscond through our•' V * 4 • •lines \o Yankeedom. The elder Rumscv ^scaped by the skin of his teeth, leaving his boy in the bands of his captors. The first “Dragon”- encountered wap an ill-looking 'fellow, lylhe.naine of Miller, who was cap-turea about 1} tnilca from the widow John Robinson’s, between two spurs of the mountain. 3$Ulervwaa^in possession of a valuable riding horse bclOitging to P.M. Ervin, Esq., #ho resides^ ear Paul’s Mill, and who had.4 ^ *four of his horses stolen the ninht before Ioaythe party connected with Miller.At Union Springs th»'y caught another Swamp Dragon, a young man by the name of Bowman, whose father resides in Bote-ttourt; county, bflvirisi removed thither fromV * •*/Rockingham, This party had in his posies-ijyBibn three ot Mr. Ervin’s stolen horses.E o was armed with a revolver, and hud a • tegular pass from the Captain of a SwampDragon company,.authorizing him to pass¥ .»Itlfhragh the lines and steal and carryout property. Along with Bowman wove a Yankee deserter who had been ou duty under ‘dCapb. Avis, in Staunton, and a man named Price, of Staunton, belonging to the 18th -Jteg’t, Lnbodcn’s command. These men were Unarmed, and tepresented that they Were on the way to join Price’s command, .when they were “picked up” by the Swamps. A rather improbable story, especially r.s Price had long been absent from his company rind had shown but little desire to get back.♦i Oue Swamp Dragon, named Boll, knownto have been vith this party, escaped.Miller and Bowman, the avid- nee of whoseconnection with that miserable class of trui-tor9 to their country, “the Swamp Dragons,”is so conclusive, are both very young men,and are both Rockingham boy*, although $they have not for some lime resided here. Tt ^as p painful sight to see .these boys, who might have been ornaiuenis to their country, in the humiliating position in which they were placed by tbhir an fortunate? connection with the Swamp Dragons and their horse-stealing expedition.- These “Dragons” and their supposed accomplices have been taken from our guardhouse, where they remained but onp night, and sent on for trial. *
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Harrisonburg Rockingham Register and Advertiser
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Fri, Mar 24, 1865
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