The Portland daily press., 1892-06-07

uttered not q word.
81 have seen the president-that is,
President Davis-and the secretary of
war and General Winder, and all have
been very good and kind to me. Thew
say that tomorrow Lieutenant Bowen
will be specially exchanged and will go
back with me to Washington on the
flag of truce boat. But you, Howard
they told me nothing about you. How
can leave you here a prisoner after all
you have done for me and mine?"
He tried to comfort her with the as
surance that he could endure imprison-
ment as well as the hundreds of his COM
rades then in Richmond, but of course
his brave words did not have the desired
effect. "I'll go to General Winder and
the president 4again, she said, and she
rose to her feet as if to carry out her
purpose at once. "They cannot refuse
to exchange you when they know the
whole truth"
She went into General Winders Office
and returned within a minute with that
officer, who said that he would see what
could be done for Captain Forbes, but
that for the present he and Mr.. Bowen,
their paroles having expired, would be
kept under guard. This was certainly
the only thing to do under the circum-
stances, but when Jennie Campbell saw
the captain led away by two armed
guards she felt, somehow, as if he were
being taken away to execution, and she
would have shared his fate if in her
power.
The two Union prisoners were placed
in charge of Captain Lamar, then assist
ant provost marshal of Richmond. They
felt certain that they would be taken at
once to Libby, or, still worse, to Castle
Thunder, but the provost, evidently act
ing under orders, conducted them to the
Spottiswood, took their paroles not to go
outside the hotel without his orders,
then secured them room and whispered
that the bar was free to them, privilege
OF which they did not avail themselves.
Major Moses, who had been as good
as his word, must have known where
the prisoners were, for he called that
evening and informed the captain that
he understood arrangements had been
made for his special exchange on the
morrow. This good news was confirmed
by Miss Campbell, who appeared at the
hotel about dark with a look of triumph
on her pale face.
Lieutenant Bowen was far too gallant
to show to the sister his dislike for the
brother, and then the prospect of ex-
change banished for the time all men,
DRY of Edward Campbell's unsoldierly
trick, so that he was not only gracious
in his manner, but positively happy.
Immediately after breakfast the next
morning Captain Lamar came to the
Spottiswood House with carriage, and
in this Miss Campbell and the two off
GERS accompanied him to the flag of
truce boat. Here they met General
Winder, but the old mans face no longer
scowled, and the harshness had left his
manner. He did not take much notice
of the prisoners, but he addressed him
self very gallantly to the young lady,
assuring her that the friends of the Con-
federacy need never despair so long as
there were noble women like herself to
work and pray for it. Poor girl, she
had seen enough of war, and if she could
have had her way there would have
been peace under the old conditions be-
fore an hour passed.
About noon the Union flag of truce
boat in charge Of Major Milford was
met, the passengers were exchanged and
the men in blue no longer prisoners.
The officers of the City of New York
remembered Miss Campbell, who had
gone up the river with them the week
before, and whose mission they knew
and sympathized with, but the most san
guine of them felt that she would fail
in her purpose to secure the release of the
Union officer on whose testimony the
life of her brother depended. But when
it was learned that she had not only &C.
complished her purpose, but also had Sc
cured the release Of Captain Forbes, she
was regarded as heroine, and her
southern sympathies were lost sight of
in view of a positive service to the Union
cause.
From Fort Monroe the captain sent a
dispatch to Mrs. Campbell, telling her of
Jennie's safety and success, and another
to his own family, explaining his ex-
change the day following their hearing
of his capture.
Twenty-four hours after leaving the
capital of the Confederacy our friends
were in the capital of the Union. Judge
Speed gave the young men all the money
they needed, and after they had sup
piled themselves with decent clothes he
conducted them and Miss Campbell to
President Lincoln. In speaking of this
meeting afterward Miss Campbell, who
had seen Jefferson Davis so recently,
said, "The southern president seemed
to be all head, and the Union president
all heart" Mr.. Lincoln was profoundly
interested in the story told by the young
Kentuckians, and that day he set aside
the findings of the court in the case Of Ed
ward Campbell, and it was ordered that
he be sent to Camp Chase as prisoner
of war.
The captain and Lieutenant Bowen
were each granted thirty days leave, and
started for the west with Miss Campbell.
On the way to Kentucky they stopped
at Camn Chase Edward Con,,o}a11 had