Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-08-17
The Exchanged Officers.

The Richmond Eraminer, after noticing
the exchange Of Officers at Charleston, goes
on to say:
These officers were taken out of Fort
Delaware on the 26th of June and put
aboard the gunboat Dragon and transported
to Hilton Head, where they arrived on the
4th day after leaving Fort Delaware. The
cabins at Cummings Point, with the con-
structiea of which our gunners at Sumter
are said to have interfered considerably,
we're ready for their reception, ,aand they, no
doubt, would have been put into them forth
with but for q certain message from Gener-
al Samuel Jones. General Jones Informed
the Yankee General Foster that if he put
our officers on Cummings Point, he, Jones,
would remove the. Yankee officers from
Charleston and put them in themost ex-
posed part of Fort Sumter. This was a
sumner for Foster; he knew General Jones
would execute his threat to the letter, and
that in that case either the siege Of Sumter
must be abandoned, or else every one of the
captive Yankee officers would be torn to
pieces by the guns Of their friends in three
or four days. In this dilemma, Foster re-.
tanned our officers at HiltonHead and wrote
to Washington for instructions.
Our officers remained in the gunboat at
Hilton Head for forty days, and gay, hot
time they had of it. During the Jay half
of them were permitted to go on deck at
time, while the other half sweltered between
decks, where there was large cooking stove
always in operation to add to the horrors Of
the place. But, though cribbed, cabined
and confined in small vessel, under an al
most trepic sun, with the speedy prospect of
being shortly exposed to. almost certain death
their spirita mover tagged. Indeed the
gravest and most digni6ed of the party re.
Dewed their youth and assumed extraordi-
nary gaiety, with songs and laughter, and a
thousand boyish pranks and devices.
We do not know what passed between the
Yankee Government and Foster, but at the
end of forty days the latter proposed to
General Jones an absolute exchange1of their
respective prisoners. This proposition was
agreed to By General Jones, and the ex-
change took place on the Sd Of August.
Our officers are ell in good health, not.
withstanding their long Imprisonment ashore
and aAoat. Many of them are now in this
city awaiting orders.
General Edward johnson was captured
at Spotsylvania Court House on the 18th of
May; General GardDer was captured at
Port Hudson, and General Archer at Get
t1sburg. We do not recall at the moment,
on what occasion General Archer was made
prisoner.
General NJ. JEFF Thompson, to whom We
are indebted for most of the information
given above, was captured at Pocahontas,
Arkansas, on the 22d of August last. He
was first sent to St: Louis, thence to the
Ohio Penitentiary, and thence to Fort Del
aware, Hilton Head and Charleston. He
is in no wise worsted by his various impris-
oumeDts but as sound in health, and even
more full of life and patriotic fire than in his
first campaign. He has received orders to
report to General Price, and will leave for
that purpose tomorrow.
We must not omit to notice the fact that
since this experiment Of sending Yankee
officers to Charleston has turned out 80 a.
greeably for us, our authorities have sent
down six hundred more to be located in the
same quarter of the city recently occupied
by the fifty who have been exchanged
They have not yet been conveyed to their
new and dangerous quarters, but are now in
a prison which is out Of range. General
Thompson visited them before leaving
Charleston, and recognized amongst them