The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-12-03
ECHOES OF
THE PAST.
Excerpts From the Diary of
Capt. A. j. Campbell.
After Four Months Imprisonment at
Johnson Island, the Prisoners
Start for Dixie.
Packed Into Lot of Filthy Stock
Cars, Like so Many Hogs, They
Find Sleep and Rest
Impossible.
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JOHNSON ISLAND PRIsoN.-Aug.
81. Geo. N. Sanders, instead Of
Yancy, passes through Buffalo for
Canada with dispatches for Europe.
Coils. Avery and Quarles, with Ma
jors Cavanaugh and Brown have
been paroled to report in ten days at
Vicksburg. Officers tell us that we
leave next Friday, the 10Th, at 6
o'clock, and we all feel lighthearted
at the prospect for Dixie. Learn
from the lately arrived prisoners
that DR.. Jos. E. Dixon and Capt.
Ross were arrested at Camp Chase,
the one an Internationally released
surgeon, the other on his way to be
exchanged. II. Anderson, of the
49th Tennessee, was buried yester-
day.
Aug. 28.-After having figured in
the cook room all day | feel some
what wearied. Our funds have run
short and each takes his turn at
cooking. L had hoped that l would
be out of prison by this time and on
WIG way W DlAlc. OOluS bO-lllOI
row, certainp' "Going to start Sat
urday!" mot going till Sundayp'
Waiting for Pierson to settle his
books!" "Will get off the first OF
Sept. p'-these are the constant re-
ports.
This mornings SaRdusky Regis
lister says that the Rebel officers are
indignant at having the newly ar
rived prisoners quartered with them
on Johnson Island. That they dc
not wish to associate with murderers
and robbers, which fact makes him
the editorl have some respect fol
them, Rebels and traitors as they
are. This, I suppose, originated in
the brain of the editor, for these men
are regarded as PATRIOTS as true as
steel. Among them are the Rev
Hobson, of KY, and other political
prisoners. The commander at Camp
Morton, Ind, said that all the
weakly prisoners had died, the COW.
ardly had taken the oath and the
others would make invincible sol.
diers.
Aug. 29.-Many conflicting rumors
about the time we are to leave and
the probable cause of detention
Great many of the "loyalso apply
ing for certificates of disability
"Rebs are busy packing clothes and
making haversacks to be prepared
when the welcome news comes to
start for Dixie. tsh
The following appears in the Reg
listers:
Released on Taking the Oath.
-Four of the Rebel prisoners on
Johnson Island were released yes
terday on taking the oath of allie
glance. They protested the inten-
ton of entering the Union army
Three of them were Northern men
and claimed to have been impressed
into the Rebel service. They were
officers, however, and there is a lit
tie singularity about making officers
of impressed men. Their names are
Sam'l b. Moore, formerly of Lam
caster, Pa, impressed in Ala, (be-
longing to the lst Ala.); w. H. Ru-
pert, an artilleryman, of Pekin, ILL.,,
impressed at Memphis, Tenn. H. c.
Winger, Lancaster, Pa, impressed
in Ark.;J j. w. Swanson, of Tenn,
impressed in Ark, Swanson was
hostler to Col. Smith and is an un-
naturalized Swede.)"
Hon. Chas. J. Iugersoll arrested
for a speech made at Democratic
meeting in Philadelphia. Buell. at
Decherd, Tenn, within ten miles OF
Confederates. Troops around Nash
vile on half rations. 1l30 Rebels
are to leave here Monday for Dixie
Some of them have belittled them
selves very much in our estimation
by trucking to Federal officers fol-
favors.
Aug. 30.-Received orders to cook
three days rations and be ready to
start at FIVE o'clock Monday morn
ing for Dixie. What Joy this gives
to the prisoners here! We have been
here Just four months on that day
We have for several days been with
out any sugar; nothing but bitter
coffee, dry, sour bread and a little
meat, very Indifferent in quality.
Among the prisoners here is a
Virginian who has been in prison
lWGlNb iuOlllos 1IO was SuPbuA Ob
while sick and under the command
of Humphrey Marshall, and was put
in Jail at Frankfort, KY, with some
criminals condemned to death. He
was kept there five months when the
inmates broke Jail and he was shot
in the arm by the home guard; yet
he pushed on, took horse and was
out week when the home guards
got in pursuit of him and shot him
through the lungs. They took him
back to Frankfort and then to Louis
vile. Neither he nor his captors
thought he would survive the trip,
but he did and was sent to Camp
Morton and then here.
Old Pierson says he has a hum
dred of our letters partly written In
sympathetic ink, and thatnone have
gone through; that he has been
posted in regard to all our plots" TO