The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-07-28
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and ] have not their consent to use their
true names, ! must take fictitious ones.
While this will not detract from the gen.
Oral accuracy Of the narrative. 1t will
give me more latitude in the grouping
and presentation Of q series Of incidents
quite as startling In their way IS ever
the brain Of romancer conjured mp.
l have said In the course Of these arti-
eles that. as a rule, the mountain men
Of the south were strongly attached to
the Union, and that wherever there were
many slaves and much wealth the peo-
pie were as strongly in favor Of seces-
sion. OF course there were mountain
men who fought earnestly on the side Of
the south. and shareholders who swore
to stand by the Union, right or wrong, ="
and who kept their oaths. Il follows
that there were sections Of the border
states where the people were pretty well
divided, and this division broke mp low
ing families. arraying brother against
brother and father against son. and
parted neighbors who had been as near
and dear to each other as II they had
been kinsmen.
Howard Forbes lived in the eastern
part Of Madison county, Kentucky, in
1851. In this section Of the state the foot
hills Of the Cumberland range meet the
undulating uplands Of the famous blue
grass region, and the result Is a country
more picturesque, II not 10 rich, as that
Of Bourbon. Fayette, Jessamine and
woodward to the west. In no part Of
Kentucky or in no part Of the south
were the people more divided as to Sc
cession than in eastern Madison. About
One-haR the young men here Joined
Morgan and Chenowith, and the other
half entered the Union army.
Howard Forbes. Of Madison. enlisted
IN the Second Mounted Rifles, and in the
fall Of 1853 he had risen to the command
Of company and had been repeatedly
mentioned by General Thomas and other
officers for his gallantry and efficiency.
In November, 1868, Captain Forbes was in
camp near Danvilie, having just come up
from successful raid against the BUSH
whackers south Of the Cumberland. He
had orders to join his regiment, then at
Knoxville with Burnside. and he was
ready to pull out In the early morning
when black boy, mounted on a foam
fecked horse, refined In before him and
threw himself from the saddle.
This boy was Jake, the property Of q
widow named Campbell, whose fine farm
adjoined that Of the senior Forbes. That
Jake had ridden far and fast the condi-
ton OF his thoroughbred showed, and
that his mission was one Of great i'm
portance was manifest in his excited
manner and the ashy hue Of his face. In
reply to the captains inquiry "a to where
he came from, the boy pulled q letter
from his breast pocket and gasped.
"Mauss Howard. OATS from Miss Jen-
MEL"
The Miss Jennie in question was q
daughter Of the Widow Campbell. and
before the trouble came she was engaged
TO young Forbes. Mrs. Campbell and
her son and daughter were intensely
southern in their sympathies. and their
dislike for their Union neighbor was, il
possible. more bitter than that they en-
tertained for the Yankees who came
from north Of the Ohio. Miss Jennie's
letter was stiff and formal in its opening,
but the terrible strain under which she
wrote soon showed itself, and she gave
full vent To her piteous pleading.
Briefly this was her story; Her brother.
Edward Campbell, had raised u com.
pany called the Border Rangers" in.
tending to join Morgan, but without
any authority he had carried on a sort
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