ner was exchanged. In this case, however, the money was taken unofficiallly by the enlisted men and was never returned. In the terms of the capitulation signed by both Hawkins and Duckworth at Union City, it had been agreed that all private property belonging to the men would be respected. Only their horses, horse equipment, and arms were to be taken from them. This breach of the surrender terms by Forrest's men later caused much misery and even death for many of Hawkins's men. On the 28th of March the group arrived at Humboldt. A citizen there, seeing Colonel Hawkins' predicament, took pity on him and gave him two pairs of socks and a handkerchief. Their next stop was Jackson, where they joined Forrest's main force. Here James McCree, a citizen Unionist, sent a dispatch to the Federal command on the Tennessee River suggesting that Forrest, and his prisoners might be intercepted on their way south after leaving Jackson. Forrest suspected McCree, arrested him, and would have hanged him except for the intervention of certain Jackson citizens, who felt McCree might be innocent. After a few days at Jackson, the prisoners were moved on to near Purdy. The captives hoped that there might be a rescue attempt by Union troops before the group crossed the Tennessee line. General Forrest, anticipationg trouble, gave orders that if an attempt was made, the prisoners were to be shot. No help materialized, however. After crossing the Tennessee line south of Pocahontas, the men entered into northern Mississippi at Ripley, and later were sent on to Ellistown and Tupelo. About a month after the prisoners had gone through Tupelo, another group of Union sympathizers from the same area of West Tennessee as the prisoners were marched through the town. They were private citizens who had been rounded up in Huntingdon and were being escorted to prison. John A. Crutchfield, a lieutenant in the 20th Tennessee Cavalry CSA, wrote about them in a lett...
