Captain C. H. Wood, of the Fifty-first Ohio, with a squad of four men, arrived in the city this morning from Nashville, having in charge Gen. Washington Barrow and Gen. Wm. G. Harding, of Nashville, of Nashville, and Col. Joseph C. Guild, of Gallatin, three members of the Tennessee Military board, who were arrested by the command of Gov. Johnson, and ordered to be sent North for safe keeping. Gen. Barrow was Minister to Portugal during Fillmore’s administration, we believe. He is at present a member of the State Legislature of Tennessee, is a very prominent and influential citizen, and was particularly zealous as one of the vigilance committee at Nashville in arresting and sending North at the breaking out of the rebellion, all persons obnoxious to the Confederate Government! Under his auspices, Mr. Pearl, of this city, was summarily ejected from his home. The latter gentleman called upon the party at the Michigan Exchange, on learning of their arrival, expressed his pleasure at meeting them here, and assured them that a residence of six months with us had convinced him that Northerners were a very pleasant, hospitable race, and not nearly so bad as they had been represented to be.
Gen. Harding belongs to one of the most wealthy and aristocratic families of Tennessee. Possessing an ample fortune in his own right, it has received large accessions by marriage, and the General lives in a style that equals the blooded aristocracy of old England. With ample leisure to devote to the interests of the Southern Government, he has made himself one of the foremost of its leaders, and occupies one of the very first positions in point of influence in his State. Col. Guild is scarcely less distinguished and occupies a prominent place among the leaders in his state.
Gen. [sic] Johnson could not have arrested three men in the State of Tennessee, whose absence would cause such a vacancy in the ranks of the secessionists. They will be confined in Fort Wayne until further orders. During the forenoon large numbers of our citizens visited the Michigan Exchange, anxious to get a view of a live secession leader. The gentlemen, however were not on exhibition, and very few were favored with an audience. They will probably be immediately sent by Col. Smith, to whom their guard was ordered to report, to Fort Wayne. – {Detroit Free Press.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1
Gen. Harding belongs to one of the most wealthy and aristocratic families of Tennessee. Possessing an ample fortune in his own right, it has received large accessions by marriage, and the General lives in a style that equals the blooded aristocracy of old England. With ample leisure to devote to the interests of the Southern Government, he has made himself one of the foremost of its leaders, and occupies one of the very first positions in point of influence in his State. Col. Guild is scarcely less distinguished and occupies a prominent place among the leaders in his state.
Gen. [sic] Johnson could not have arrested three men in the State of Tennessee, whose absence would cause such a vacancy in the ranks of the secessionists. They will be confined in Fort Wayne until further orders. During the forenoon large numbers of our citizens visited the Michigan Exchange, anxious to get a view of a live secession leader. The gentlemen, however were not on exhibition, and very few were favored with an audience. They will probably be immediately sent by Col. Smith, to whom their guard was ordered to report, to Fort Wayne. – {Detroit Free Press.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1
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