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The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
General Mahone's line captured sixty of the Yankee pickets in their front. The Petersburg Express of yesterday contains an account of the capture of the Hon. Roger A. Pryor by the enemy under the following circumstances: Mr. Pryor, who, for some time past, has been acting as an independent scout, went out on the lines on MondMr. Pryor, who, for some time past, has been acting as an independent scout, went out on the lines on Monday morning to exchange papers with the Yankees. He advanced, waving a paper, as is the custom in such cases, and a Yankee officer came out and met him and exchanged papers with him. As he was on his way back into our lines, several Yankees sprung from an ambush and seized and carried him off a prisoner. A number of our men witnesreat a distance to be able to render any assistance. While this is undoubtedly a piece of treachery on the part of the enemy, it must, we fear, be submitted to. Mr. Pryor's going forward to exchange papers was an unofficial act, not warranted, that we have learned, by any truce or treaty with the enemy. The exchange of papers alo