Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1884 — An Unwritten Law. [ARTICLE]

An Unwritten Law.

It was an unwritten law’, between the “Rebels” and Yankees at the left of Petersburg, the winter and spring of iB6O, to m et between the,,, picket lines and indulge in commercial transactions and to trade papers. This was confined to: men in the line. One day General Roger A. Pryor rode out to the Yankee to trade papers. It happened that the Yankee had been a prisoner and bad often seen General Pryor, and easily recognized him. Recalling that the unwritten law did not include general officers, and seeing big game, the Yankee cocked his gun and aimed at Pryor’s heart, telling him to get down anil walk into camp. The plucky Southerner fairly frothed at the mouth but he obeyed. .