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The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1863., [Electronic resource] 9 3 Browse Search
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by a Southern lady to have her slaves returned to her. It appears that Mrs. Louisa T. Campbell, who had two sons in the Confederate army, was on her way from Springfg the river was captured, with her slaves, twenty in number, by a gunboat. Mrs. Campbell afterwards made application to Brig-Gen. Ross, commanding in the absence ofuld or should be used to compel them to go with their pretended owner, Mrs. Louisa T. Campbell; that the colored persons replied that if they were free they would re24th, 1863. Brig. Gen. Ross, Commanding: The servants claimed by Mrs. Louisa T. Campbell are at this office, and they are unwilling to go with her. Freed by the President's proclamation, they are loth to risk slavery further. Mrs. Campbell says she considers them still as slaves: that she does not wish or intend to free tthat she will hold them as slaves as long as she can. The servants say that Mrs. Campbell's two sons, John and Thomas, were in the insurgent army, and from the manne