Barrycdog
Major
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2013
- Location
- Buford, Georgia
Sunny South, Apr. 14, 1894 -- page 10
A Contrast
Dear Editor - having "sprung to maturity in the south since the war," I desire to relate two different incidents that came under my observation, even if I was not yet in my teens. They are given to illustrate the differences in courtesy and leniency shown to each other by the opposing forces and are facts, for the names, places and incidents will be familiar to many of your readers;and no doubt the family of the one will drop a tear to the memory of him who died from such a cruel and warranted treatment, which the captors of the other will laugh as they read and reflect upon a time past when it did not take a balloon to make the ladies suspect a stranger as being a spy.
Dates I dont remember, but they make no material differences since it all happened during the war.
Professor Low left Cincinnati Ohio at 4, O'clock am., on a Saturday, in a balloon, and at about 4,o'clock p.m. he landed about thirteen miles above Union S.C., near a farm house where several ladies gathered quilting, and when the saw him "light' they gathered up brooms, clubs, rolling pins etc., and sailed out to capture "Abeham" Lincoln as the called him,and, but for a man being near at hand sloughing they would have given him a severe reception. Professor Low had that mornings Cincinnati papers with him as evidence from whence he came, and claimed to be en route North but was blown over the mountains and did not know where he was. He was taken in a wagon, Sunday morning, and carried to Union where he was treated well. He was sent to Columbia to the governor, who in turn sent him to Richmond Virginia to the president, who sent a flag of truce with him through the lines to Washington, He was not molested after he escaped from the ladies into whose hands he first fell, nor was he ever accused of being a spy, much less cast into prison.
Now for the other: Dr. Andrews of Charlotte N.C., who was not a Confederate Soldier, started for England and when he reached Nassau, I believe it was - anyway it 'twas neutral grounds- he decided to go to New York and visit some friends; when lo! he had not been an hour in the city, when he was arrested and sent to Point Lookout, I think United States Prison, where they kept him for two years. he could not be exchanged, for he was not a Confederate Soldier and the South had no prisoners save Union Soldiers. Dr. Andrews was kept in prison until his health failed and he became a physical wreck. When they saw he was going to die upon their hands , they sent him home where he died within forty eight hours after his arrival. Possibly his case never went to the president; possibly it was no ones fault, but of the two cases, were it to be repeated, and it had to be one or the other, I'd take chances with the gray rather than the blue.
MIST
Ophir, Oregon
Possibly
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus_S._C._Lowe
http://www.civilwar-online.com/2010/10/october-1-1860-professor-thaddeus-lowe.html
In March 1865, it was reported that 301 civilians were in Point Lookout Prison!
A Contrast
Dear Editor - having "sprung to maturity in the south since the war," I desire to relate two different incidents that came under my observation, even if I was not yet in my teens. They are given to illustrate the differences in courtesy and leniency shown to each other by the opposing forces and are facts, for the names, places and incidents will be familiar to many of your readers;and no doubt the family of the one will drop a tear to the memory of him who died from such a cruel and warranted treatment, which the captors of the other will laugh as they read and reflect upon a time past when it did not take a balloon to make the ladies suspect a stranger as being a spy.
Dates I dont remember, but they make no material differences since it all happened during the war.
Professor Low left Cincinnati Ohio at 4, O'clock am., on a Saturday, in a balloon, and at about 4,o'clock p.m. he landed about thirteen miles above Union S.C., near a farm house where several ladies gathered quilting, and when the saw him "light' they gathered up brooms, clubs, rolling pins etc., and sailed out to capture "Abeham" Lincoln as the called him,and, but for a man being near at hand sloughing they would have given him a severe reception. Professor Low had that mornings Cincinnati papers with him as evidence from whence he came, and claimed to be en route North but was blown over the mountains and did not know where he was. He was taken in a wagon, Sunday morning, and carried to Union where he was treated well. He was sent to Columbia to the governor, who in turn sent him to Richmond Virginia to the president, who sent a flag of truce with him through the lines to Washington, He was not molested after he escaped from the ladies into whose hands he first fell, nor was he ever accused of being a spy, much less cast into prison.
Now for the other: Dr. Andrews of Charlotte N.C., who was not a Confederate Soldier, started for England and when he reached Nassau, I believe it was - anyway it 'twas neutral grounds- he decided to go to New York and visit some friends; when lo! he had not been an hour in the city, when he was arrested and sent to Point Lookout, I think United States Prison, where they kept him for two years. he could not be exchanged, for he was not a Confederate Soldier and the South had no prisoners save Union Soldiers. Dr. Andrews was kept in prison until his health failed and he became a physical wreck. When they saw he was going to die upon their hands , they sent him home where he died within forty eight hours after his arrival. Possibly his case never went to the president; possibly it was no ones fault, but of the two cases, were it to be repeated, and it had to be one or the other, I'd take chances with the gray rather than the blue.
MIST
Ophir, Oregon
Possibly
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus_S._C._Lowe
http://www.civilwar-online.com/2010/10/october-1-1860-professor-thaddeus-lowe.html
In March 1865, it was reported that 301 civilians were in Point Lookout Prison!
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