Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-01-09
TWO KENTUCKIANS.
One Went to the Southern Side ana
the Other Took UP the CRuse
of the Union.

VI ihC
"Some years ago." sand the gem
eral, according to the Chicago Inter
Ocean, "I went down into Virginia
on n matter of Importance to the
government, and in the course of
events called on Gen. Benjamin Stod-
dert Ewell then president of William
and Mary college, Ewell had been
opposed to secession in 1861, but
went with his state and fought TO
the end. After the war he advocated
presidency, and he and his brother,
captured in the last year of the war
by Gen. Sheridan, were highly re-
garded by Grant.
"Ewell had been president of Will
liam and Mary college before the
war, and took up the work again at
the close of the war. 1 was sure of
n welcome from Ewell, but when L
saw that the faculty was largely
composed of wounded confederate
officers / was in doubt as to their
feeling toward me. When we met at
dinner, Ewell introduced me to the
professors as friend from Pennsyl-
vania, and one of the professors said
cheerfully: L am very glad to see
you, sir. 1 am part sylvanian
myself. 1 left the whole of one leg
at Gettysburg This was an ice
breaker, and there was no trouble
after that"
"The case of the Ewell brothers,"
said Comrade A. c. Dodds, was un-
usual. They were on the same side.
and both won dis stinction. In a good
many cases, however, brothers in
| Virginia and Kentucky were on oppo-
site sides. In fact, the families i'll
the border states had stranger eX-
periences than those further south
or further north. There was one
family living on small farm in Ken
lucky in which one of the sons and
the father sympathized with tho
south, while mother and the other
son as strongly sympathized with the
north. In the spring of 1863 the
southern sympathizer and a number
of his young friends decided to go
south and enlist.
"They were to start for Tennessee
on Sunday morning. He said nothing
to his parents until after he had
eaten his breakfast that morning,
when he told them of his plans. H.;
brother, the northern sympathizer,
jumped to his feet and said: If
you go to the confederate army
will go to the union army After
some heated discussion, but without
any further preparation, the broth
ers said good-by to their parents,
one starting north and the other
south. They went away on hot i'm
pulse, leaving the father and mother
in great distress of mind, the more
so because the mother sympathiled
with one son and the father with the
other.
In one of the battles of 1863 the
southern sympathizer was taler
prisoner and sent to Camp Douglas
in Chicago. The morning after his
arrival he was in the barracks wash
room getting ready for breakfast
when looking into n small poke
mirror while he combed his hair, III
saw some one pass behind him, anC
, in the momentary reflection in th
| mirror the face seemed familiar. II,
turned quickly and stood face to fac,
with his brother, who was one of th'
union soldiers doing guard duty a
the camp. AS prisoner and guard
? the brothers, strangely enough, be
came friends.
In September, 1864, while Grant
army was operating in front o
Petersburg, Va, colored regimen
| on duty in the rife pits took mum
, ber of confederate prisoners, all u
whom were ordered to City Point