The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12

Misses Voolfolk. daughters Of Col T.
D. Voolfolk, Of Paducahl for their
warm expression OF sympathy OF the
Southern cause. were ordered TO leave
the city. Il happened that In their
departure. under the escort Of Fed
eral oncer, that Mrs. Latham met
them. and. feeling asgrieved at what
she considered An outrage in Danish
ing these ladies', she 30 freely spoke
her sentiments that the ofaeer At once
included her in the order. TO which
she made no objection. as her sur
roundIngs had become so unpleasant
Ths Misses voolfolk and Mrs. Latham
left together. under guard. and crossed
into Canada"
Mrs. Latham, In her written state
meat sent me last January, which /
inclose herewith. says: About Au-
gust / Mr.. Anderson was arrested
charged with harborlng his son. He
was old. infrm and subject to apo
plexy. His wife and daughters were
wild, expecting IL he we're shot, he
would die In a paToxysm. and they
prevailed ON me as an old friend to 80
with them to Gen. Paine's headquar-
tiers. He reluctantly let the old man
go home. then turning saVagely to me,
said: Il will attend to You and your
husband, T. J. Latham, on his return.
He is a fne Union man to visit Gen.
Dana. my superior, In Memphis. and
have my trade orders annulled. Go,
but you will hear from me-"
"Of course, 1 left his headquarters
under high. state of excitment and
alarm. A few mornings later an on
Ger came to the Anderson home and
notified me to get ready to leave for
Canada, as Gen. Paine had So or
dered, and six or eight other ladies
had been already notified. In the ex-
citement and the attending confusion,
Mr.. Latham being out of the city. do
not know what became Of the notice.
4 knew II this were true the Wool
folks would be included. Highly
alarmed and aroused, / went to ascer-
tain, and found that they had received
notice and would leave at once. Re
lying on the information as to
Paine's purpose, preferred to go with
friends rather than myself, or with
strangers, and we went to Canada via
Chicago to Windsor under the same
guard of dozen negroes, and, in COM
pany with Misses voolfolk under the
same guard, and went with them all
the way to Canada"
Mrs. T. ]. Latham in the tale OF her
Punishment as published in the Vet
eran adds an additional fact to make
sure that they reached Canada to-
gether says that upon her arrival they
we're met by Gen. Morgan. 1t must
have been his ghost wandering far
from home. for at that time his body
was lying in it's cold grave in far
away Tennessee. AS a matter of
fact and history, John Morgan was
never in Canada. But to return to the
two stories of her Punishment They
agree only in the statement that they
left Paducah at the same time.
Now. let us look into the evidence.
Mrs. Kate voolfolk Whitefield, one OF
the ladies above mentioned, wrote a
full history of the Punishment and
gave the name of every person in the
party that made the trip to Canada.
The history was published in the Pa
ducah News-Democrat on February
Is. 1908. This was done with
the full knowledge and APP
proval of the other sister, Ber-
tie. / enclose you copy of the ar
ticle herewith. Mrs. Latham's name
is conspicuous by not being on the
list. The article was sent me accom-
panied by a written statement from
the author, dated December IL, 1906,
rolUerdJlnR Ine SJdJ6IuSHI VI IhO oDO'S
mentioned article, which | also enclose
you. In January last Mr.. and Mrs.
Latham went to Paducah to disprove
this article. The best they could do
by fiattering and Overwhelming by
their presence, was to secure state
ment prepared by Mr.. Latham and
artfully worded, and of course made
as strong as they could possibly get
from BERTHE voolfolk, to the effect
that at some time Mrs. Latham was
with them on the trip to Canada. This
statement was published in the Com
mercial Appeal of the 9Th instant and
has been spread on the journal of the
Sarah Law chapter of the u. d. G. as
her vindication. You notice that 1t
contains no statement that she was
hanished with them. I state on the
authority of Mrs. May Mckinney, pres
. l.