The Portland daily press., 1892-06-07

no storm, the messages must goP'
AS the principal characters in the
story I amAabout to tell are still living,
and I have,not their consent to use their
true names, I must take fictitious ones.
While this Will not detract from the gen.
eral accuracyyof the narrative, it will
give me more latitude in the grouping
and presentationsof series of incidents
quite as startling in their way as ever
the brain of a ronsancer conjured up.
I have said in the course of these arti-
cles that, as a lsaley the mountain men
of the south were strongly attached to
the Union, land 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 blythe Union, right or wrong"
and who kept their1 oaths. 1t follows
that there were sections of the border
statesawheSe'the peopSe'were pretty well
divided, andstfis division broke up low
ing families, ,arrayinga brother against
brother and father against son, and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who&laad been as near
andsdear to each other as if they had
beenSkinsmen.
Howard Forbes lived in the eastern
part of Madison county, Kentucky, in
1861. In this section of the state the foot
hills of the Cumberland range meet the
undulating uplsnds of theNfameus blue
grass region, andathe resuftlis a country
more picturesque IF not SO rich, as that
of Bourbon, Fayette, Jessarnine and
Woodward to the west. In mo 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-half 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 1858 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, 1856; Captain Forbes was in
camp near Danville, having just come up
from a 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
feckeG horse. reined in before him and
threw himself from the saddle.
This bog was Jake, the property of
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 as to where
hec came from, the boy pulled a letter
from his breast pocket and gasped,
sfMauss Howard, OATS from Miss Jen-
nier'
The Miss Jennie in question was a
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, if
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 com
pany called the Border Rangers" in
tending to join Morgan, but without
any authority he had carried on sort
Of guerrilla war on his own account,
harrassing Union citizens and disband-
ing in the hills whenever pursuit became
threatening. During the campaign Of
the previous autumn an old and helpless
Union man named Rogers was murdered
near Bardstown, and Captain Campbell
was charged with the crime. Recently
he had been captured near Richmond,
under circumstances that warranted
his being treated as spy. He was taken
on to Camp Dick Robinson, then COM
manded by General Boyle, tried, found
guilty of every charge preferred against
him and sentenced to be hanged.
Miss Campbell's letter to Captain
Forbes was written from Camp Dick
Robinson, and it urged him by every
memory of the past to come to her at
once and use all his influence to save her
brother from an ignominious death. The
Union captain had every reason to dis
like the Confederate, but the love for
the sister still remained. He realized
how utterly helpless he was in the
premises, but as Camp Dick Robinson
lay almost directly in his line. of march
he determined to go there and answer
the young lady's letter in person.
in driving rain the captain left Dan
vile with his company, and reached the
camp in the afternoon, and, under the
pretext Of having some of his horses re-
shod, he decided to remain till the follow
ing morning. He at once sought out Gen
eral Boyle, and found that officer sorely
troubled over the coming execution of
the spy Edward Campbell, which WIS
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