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with tlie richest, and most vivid pic
tures of Tropic sights and scenery!
The lavish coloring of a Guido, or
Rnbens, mingles with the stern
realism of Teniers. The raisemblance
attained, is almost startling! Passing
by the sketch of Walker, who is re
ferred to as one, of “piercing eye, and
princely mien,” “half angel and half
Lucifer,” bedecked with huge “hoops
of gold,” and wearing “long silk locks,’ -
with “Spanish spurs” at heel, and a
“sombrero black,” in fact, a be-ringed,
be-uniformed, and somewhat 'meretri
cious personage,—we come, with, a
sense of relief, to passages like these;
“The trees shook hands high overhead,
And bowed and intertwined across
The narrow way—while leaves and moss'
And luscious fruit, gold-hued and red
Through all the canopy of green
Let not one sunshaft shoot between”—
“Birds hung and swung, green-robed and j
red,
Or drooped in curved linos dreamily,
Rainbows reversed, from tree to tree, •
ROSTERS OP REGIMENTS, BATTALIONS, BATTERIES, AND BRIGADE AND DIVISION STAFF ORGANIZATIONS OF LONGSTREET’S CORPS.
The following Rosters are a part of the “Records of Longstitet’s Corps” collected by General E. P. Alexander, formerlv Chief of Avtiiw,, n,,, r „ . , ~ ~ ,
tior, They are designed to record: Ist. The Brigades in which each Regiment served. 2d. The list of engagements in which it look part, with its strength figS
Officfofofwwr ! ey r n 'n °^l 1 , n ’f an T B l )pr0X t ,m l°p Where tlU '-T can, f- 3d -, h f ~ame ’ 1-ank ; Promotions, and wounds of all Regimental Officers above the rank of Lieutenant, and of alSf
Offices of Whatever rank. The names of Lieutenants of Companies have been onntted on account of the great difficulty of obtaining them, and the bulk to which they would swell the record
Having been collected in part by correspondence* they necessarily contain some errors and are by no means complete, and are published in the Banner op the South and Pi antehs’ Journai of
Augusta, m hopes that those who may he able, will take the trouble to correct and complete them before they are published in more permanent form, in the appendix of the “Records of Lon-streets
■h l r? fr Bce i hem r rrrt r T eB-ted ? srr th r r; el s ,y and ~ >,w or l Lo e
The sth Regiment South Carolina Volunteers was Organized April 13th, 1861, and Re-enlisted April, 1862, for the War
BRIGADES IN WHICH REGIMENT SERVED.
BRIO. COMMANDERS.
July, 1861
August, 1861...
April. 1862....
July, 1862
November, 1862
February, 1864.
I) R Jones
R II Anderson
M Jenkins
J Bratton
DATE.
1802. April Siege of Yorktown i
“ May 4th Williamsburg
“ May 31stjSeven Pines.
“ July 27th Cold Harbor ! 20 69 89
“ July 30th I Fraser’s Farm 170 11 79 2 92
“ July Ist Malvern Hill
“ July;Kelly’s Ford
“ Aug 30th I Second Manassas 2 37 39
“ Sept 14th Boonesboro’ 108 6 0
“ Sept 17tli Sharpsburg 0 27 1 34
“ Dec 13th(Fredericksburg. I
1863. May 3d|Siege of Suffolk
“ May 15th|Carsville
“ Sept 25th Lookout Mountain
“ Oct 28th Lookout Valley , 9 84 9 102
“ Nov 16th: Campbell Station
“ Nov 18tli Siege of Knoxville 1
“ Dec 14th Bean Station
1864. May 6th Wilderness
“ May Btli Spottsylvania ;
“ May 23 Hanover Junct ion :
“ May 28th Totopotomoy 1
“ June Ist Second Cold Harbor.....
“ June 17th Bermuda Hundreds j
“ June 18th Siege of Petersburg j
“ Aug 15th Fussell’s Mill ; j
“ Sept 30th Fort Harrison i
“ Oct 7th Darbytown : ;
“ Oct 13tb Darbytown Road :
“ Oct 27th Williamsburg Road
1865. April 2d Petersburg '
“ April 6th Rice’s Station ;
“ “ 7th Cumberland Church j
“ “ 9tli Appomattox. I
LIgT Qp CAPTAINS CONTINUED.
| !
RANK. i NAME. i REMARKS.
j !
Captain Cos I WL> Camp Wounded.
“ “Iv J Walker Retired April, 1862.
“ “ “,W Choice
BANNER OF THE SOUTH AND PLANTERS’ JOURNAL.
! Or, sang low, hanging overhead—
Sang low, as if they sang and slept,
| Sang faint, like some far waUrfall,
And took no note of _us, at all
* ****••
“Wild lilies tall as maidens are,
As sweet of breath, as pearly fair,
As fair as faith, as pure as troth,
Pell thick before our every tread,
As in a sacrifice to ruth j
And all the air with perfume filled
More sweet than ever man distilled :
The ripened fruit a fragrance shed.
And hung in hand reach overhead,
Tn nest of blosssoms on the shoot,
The bending shoot that love the fruit!"
“How ran the monkeys through the
leaves!
llow rushed they through, brown-clad, and
blue,
Like shuttles hurried through and through
The threads a hasty weaver weaves /”
****** «
“The long days through, from blossomed
trees,
There comes the sweet song of sweet bees,
With chorus, tones of cockatoo
That slid his beak along the bough,
And walked and talked, and hung and
swung
In crown of gold and coat of blue,
The wisest fool that ever sung,
Or had a crown, or held a tongue!”
FROM.
TO.
August, 1861...
April, 1862....
July, 1862
November, 1862
February, 1864.
April, 1865....
LIST OF ENGAGEMENTS.
STRENGTH.
KILLED.
WOUNDED.
MISSING.
TOTAL.
PLACE.
All this is word-painting of the
noblest pre-Raphailite kind, with
•omething tnore than pre-Raphailite
accuracy, truth and power. The color
of the Tropic vegetation, and Tropic
flower life bums glowingly in even
line! Whole pages are illuminated
by it, and made surpassingly lustrous,
and beautiful. Indeed, the young
Poet's fondness for color, is a special
characteristic of his artistic tempera
ment and genius.
We could quote literally hundreds
of couplets confirmatory of this as
sertion ! Ilis soul seems to have been
ripened under hot sunlights, and'to
blush and kindle like the great, red
luscious fruits he is so fond of por
traying !
The most ambitious poem in the
present collection is a narrative called,
*•/««.” It is cast in the form of the
drama, shows with sufficient clearness
how undramatic Mr. Miller’s genius
BY GENERAL E. P. ALEXANDER
OTHER REGIMENTS COMPOSING BRIGADE
17tli, and 18th Mississippi.
4th, Gth, and 9th South Carolina Regiments.
4th, 6th, Palmetto Sharp Shooters, and 2d Rifles.
Ist, 2d Rifles, 4th, Gth, and I’alnieffo'Sharp Shooters.
Ist, 2d Rifles, 6th, Palmetto Sharp Shooters, Hampton’s Legion.
Ist, 2d Rifles, 6th, “ “ “
RANK.
Colonel |M Jenkins
“ J Giles
“ j A Coward
Lieut Colonel... G W Legg
“ “ A Jackson
“ “ J D Wylie
Major W B Thompson
“ J D Wylie
“ J R Foster
“ T C Beekham
Adjutant E B Clinton
“ W D Hardy
“ —— Lyles
A QM 1 J Wright
“ J N Crockett,
A C S T J Elford
“ T Giles
Surgeon AW Thomson
“ J II Foster
Ass’t Surgeon.. J R Bratton
“ “ | A A Moore
“ “ .J II Witherspoon
Chaplain II II Durant
“ ;•) N Craig
Captain Cos A J W Goss
“ “ “J D Wylie
“ “ “W G Stewart
“ “ BW IT Glenn
“ “ “A Jackson
“ “ “T C Beekham
“ “ “|G A Patrick
“ “ CJ J Brown
“ “ “.JB Lyles
“ “ Dit G Carpenter
“ “ “JJ Giles
“ “ “j.J D Douglass
“ “ EC A Seabrook
“ “ “ Scott
“ “ “SB Measham
“ “ Flt B Seay
“ “ “A H Foster
“ “ “ Fitcliett
“ “ “iJ II Harvey
“ “ GiR H Glenn
“ “ “T P Whitesides
“ “ H|W J Bowen
“ “ “O B Steadman
“ “ “IT H Conner
is. The story itself can be told in a
few sentences. Don Carlos a Mexi
can Cavalier loves the beautiful Ina,
who, being poor, deliberately marries
a wealthy Greybeard, {purposing to
await his death, and then to endow
her younger lover with all his gold
and lands. But she strangely miscal
culates, and misunderstands the charac
ter of Don Carlos, who scornfully re
jects her affection, and looks with
loathing upon her perfidious meanness.
The story being almost bare of inci
dents, is mad* up of soliloquies, des
criptions of scenery, and moods of
mind; apostropliies to animate, and
inanimate Nature, embodied in metri
cal shapes, too often uncouth, arbitrary
and inharmonious. Os course, fine
passages, and bold, impressive images,
are not infrequent, but even these lack
the freshness and simplicity we admire
elsewhere in the writer’s verses. We
will give some of the best lines, and
FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS.
NAME.
Transferred to Palmetto Sharp Shooters, April, 1862.
Killed May 31st, 1862.
W Sept 17th; w May Gth, 1864; w Sept 30th, 1864.
Retired April, 1862.
Dis by W, June 27th, 1862; resigned Nov., 1862.
W ounded.
Retired April, 1862.
Promoted Lieutenant Colonel, November, 1802.
Resigned, November, 1862.
Wounded September, 1863.
Died, 1861.
Resigned, April, 1862.
Retired April, 1862; promoted Brigade ACS.
Retired, 1862.
Transferred June, 1802.
Promoted Surgeon; transferred May 10th, 1862.
Resigned August, 1861.
Served out.
Promoted Major, 1862.
W June 27th, 1862; captured May Gth, 1864.
Resigned, 1861.
Retired and promoted Lieut Colonel, April, 1862.
W Sept., 1863; promoted Major, January, 1864.
Wounded.
Wounded.
Retired April, 1862.
Promoted Colonel, April, 1862.
j Wounded.
Retired April, 1862.
u u u
Retired April, 1862.
u u u
, Killed March 31st, 1862.
. Resigned April, 1863.
“ “ 1862.
Wounded August 30th, 1862.
Woonded August 15th, 1864.
also, some of the worst. Together,
they will shadow forth the general
character of the performance. And
firstly, we extract the meritorious
stanzas.
“When the ml curtained West has bent red
as witli weeping,
Low over the couch where the prone Day
lay dying,
I have stood with brow lifted, confronting
the mountains,
That held their white faces of snow in the
heavens,
And said, “it is theirs to array them so
purely,
Because of their nearness to the Temple
Eternal,” —
And child-like, havo said, “they are fair
resting places
For the dear, weary dead on their way up
to heaven!”
Ina says to Don Carlos :
“The world is his own, who will brave its
bleak hours,
Dare them to confront the cold Days in
their column: ,
As they march down upon you, stand, hew
them in pieces
One after one, as you would a fierce foeman,
Till not one abideth between two true
bosoms /”
[concluded o» PACK 61%.]
REMARKS.
REMARKS.
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