More Swindling in the Exchange of prisoners.
--The Atlanta (Ga.) Confederacy has been informed of a new piece of Yankee villainy in the matter of exchanging prisoners. It says: ‘ Thousands of our soldiers are ignorant and unsuspecting; and when the time comes to parole them, instead of giving parcels, they give them a paper, of one of which the following is a copy by which it will be seen that the Confederate soldier upon whom it has been imposed is turned loose in Abolitiondom and cannot return to the South. All who are thus imposed upon and retained in the North by this vile trick, are announce as having taken the oath of allegiance and given in their adhesion to the Yankees: ’Office Prov't Marshal, Army of Potomac,
Camp near Sharpsburg, Md.,
September 27th, 1862.
I, L. A. Zenovich, private 6th Virginia prisoner of war taken at battle of Autistam, do hereby request that I be not returned by exchange or upon parole, and I do give my parole of honor that I will not take up arms against the Government of the United States, or in any manner give aid on information to its enemies, or go within any of the States now in rebellion until released from this obligation by competent authority.
Subscribed in presence of James W. Forsyth; Capt. A. A. A. G. The above named L. A. Zenovich, is permitted to proceed to and remain in any local State. By command of the Provost Marshal General Army of the Potomac. Zenovich above-mentioned is as true a Southerner as lives. Being a foreigner by birth, and not very well understanding our language, and being withal unsuspecting, he was the more easily imposed upon. After he had received the foregoing paper, supposing it to be a parole, and was den ed admission on the boat coming to Fortress Monroe with our paroled men to be exchanged, he found out how he was cheated. Eight others with him at the time were in the same condition. They all were in a rage and did not rest till they had gone before Gen. Wool, who, after questioning them, became satisfied they wanted to be exchanged instead of retained in Yankeedom, and accordingly he had them furnished with parles. When Gen Wool asked Zenovich if he wanted to go back to the rebel army and fight again, he broke out in violent broken English, expressing his utter astonishment at such a question. He said Virginia and the South were his home, and he would fight for them till he died. He drew from his pocket his wife's daguerreotype, showed it to the General, told him she lived at his home in Virginia, and triumphantly asked if any one could suppose he did not want to fight for her!
