The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-12-10
ECHOES OF
THE PAST.
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Excerpts From the Diary of
Capt. A. J. Campbell.
From Johnson Island Prison to Dixie
Land is a Long and Tedious
Journey.
The Ranks Don't Like the Way Some of
the Confederate Officers FOndle
Around Federal Officials and
Trigger for FavOrs.

Continued from last week-Article ILL.,
Sept. 3, 1852. Our guards are as
mute as mice. Cheered for Federal
soldiers, we hurrah for Jeff Davis
and Stonewall Jackson. We arrive
at MaltoOn, railroad junction
(marked on the old maps Paradise),
at 3 a. m. Saw a negro girl peeping
out of little cabin as though she
were afraid of being kidnapped.
At indianapolis some little negroes
ventured up to look at us. A Reb
jumped out of the cars and started
after them, making them scamper
off in hurry. Our Missourian flor
whom we made up the money! is
seen here sitting off among the
crowd of lockers on.
At Z a. M, we arrived at Effing-
ham. The Rebels scattered all over
the town and the guard was running
around after them, but one COM
pany can't guard a train of thirty
cars of Rebs who have learned that
the train will not start when many
of them are off. Here an old Dutch
woman refused to sell Confederates
anything. The Dutch are hard
against us; the Irish for us. At $3.50
we stopped for train to pass. A
little boy here said that there was
lots of secesh in this country. A
citizen told Lieut.. Love that he
would rather fight for the devil than
for Old Abe. At indianapolis got
a paper. The holder was afraid to
let me have it until he asked the
advice of bystander. We have
not found any one along the road
who has had time to read the news.
They don't know what it is, but we
fine it to be glorious. Lexington,
Bowling Green, Frankfort and
Cynthiana are evacuated by Fed
erals and they fall back on Louis
vile and Covington. Cincinnati in
an uproar, the whole of the citizens
called out and martial law declared
by Lew Wallace, the commander.
Kentucky legislature sitting at
Louisville. COnfederates pushing
on after Federals and routing them,
horse, foot and Dragons. Our brave
boys driving them at every point in
Virginia. Gen. Jackson reported
wounded; Gen. Ewell killed.
Northern papers setting up a howl
for more troops, stating that the
barbarous rebels are at their very
doors and that all will be lost if
they don't meet them en- nldsSe inn
mediately.
AT one O'Clock we arrived at Cen
tralia. We have good many SYM
pathizers through this part of I'LL
nois. The Federals mistake us for
, Federals and cheer us. Some new
recruits at this place told us ito
give them hell, boys" but they soon
found that we were Rebels by the
hurrahs for Stonewall Jackson and
jeff Davis.
Ninety-siX miles from Cairo we
came to a considerable town. In
the southeast part of the town some
young ladies came out on the por-
tico. A little girl had flag, which
all the boys took to be Confederate
flag. One of the young ladies got so
excited that she jerked it away from
the little girl and commenced wav-
ing it amid the cheers of thousand
Rebel officers and waving of hand
kerchiefs. Some took two red and
one white handkerchlets and made
eXtempOraneous Confederate flags
and waved them from the top of the
cars, which were covered with Con-
federate officers. Farther back
saw young lady cheering us with
l white handkerchief. Another
= standing by, jerked it away from
t her, but she continued to wave her
hands. AT the same town a vixen
stood in the door and kept popping
her fists at us. The more we hol
Tered the madden she got. We
D glided by, leaving her "champing
q the bits.'' Several ladies on the
road told us to stand up and fight
like men.
D In the evening we arrived a.
Duquoin, eighty miles from Cairo
and waited for an up train to pass
,, Here we saw 1.-THE man mentioned
here was few years ago, and posi-
bly, is yet, a citizen of the southern
end of Maury County. During the
r summer season of revivals he wa!
p quite conspicuous figure at any
church within a radius of ten miles
of his home where a revival was IL
t progress. Nor did he figure les
Q conspiculously whether invited o.
not, on such occasions, at the homes
of those brethren whose wives wer,
Q noted for setting a good table, H,
looked very sheepish and went anC
/ brought his wife down. She is very
I bitter against the South. \ haC
but little to say. We learned from
\ a citizen that he was doing nothing
d for livelihood. 1t is evident to m!
s mind that he is playing of on TIN
r loyal Illinoisans as a prosecuted
: Union man who has had to flee 70
! his life and leave all his property;
o thing which many other scamp
o have done, creating false impress
q sion on Northern men, in respect t
= Southern men. -IlfEr 0. ~
q Passed Big Muddy river bridg
: about sixty miles from Cairo. Sew
eral companies were stationed here