The new South. (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, January 16, 1864, Image 2
the Few south:
JOS. H. SEARS, Editor and Pr^rtotcr. j
PORT ROYAL, SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 18S4.
The New South can bo obfciined of the following
persons:
J. C. Alexander. U. M., Beaufort.
J. Yv. Allex, V. 1L, St. Augustine, Flo.
AV. C. Morrill, P. M.
L. R. Broces, uvtUD]. Vols.
E. D. Doolitti e, Vol. Engineers.
AYm. Mason', 52*1 Pa. Vols.
Sergt. C. S. Git, Co. 1\ Irul. Datt. Mass. f ar.
Regiments will please send in tbi ir orders tiie ;
early part of the weeb.
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HEROES NOT KNOWN.
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The pages of necrology will be largely increased ,
by the present war. Literary industry will write j
up the biographies of ail who greatly distinguish
themselves in battling either for or against the j
Nation. We shall have a deluge of memoirs, I
narratives and military histories. (Every Army
Correspondent will write fourteen volumes.)
Oar book-shelves will contain new companions to
the old favorites of long ago. Our libraries will
dazzle with military portraits, and our cariosity
drawers will hold relics and sonvsuirs of many a
battle-field. Our great loyalty, as well a3 our
^ natural appreciation of heroic deeds, will car.se
us to venerate and worslup th? many
" Prosd n&uM thst were not bo:n to die "
Eat while we pay unserved rcspevt to cur Com
fcianuttrs, to out Genital*, ar.d ?c?!-officer*, we I
shall inadvertently wlook the invaluable services,
the great hardships and sufferings of the
common soldiers?/.V million or mors of brort,
patriotic me:4, who sacrificed the comforts of hoiao,
the profits of business, the tenderest ties of afTsc-1
tion, to uphold "the old flag," and to sonquer the
enemies of a free, liberal, constitutional government?The
nature of all military organizations is i
to reuuer me common soicuer impersonal; 10 j
throw him into the cleft fiu?l chasm of battle and i
if killed, simply to stop his pay and rations * or
as Byron s:\id,' spell his name wrong in the '
newspapers!
We know something cf the poor soldiers' life, j
We have seen an hundred thousand and more of i
gallant men in the ill-starred Army of the Put#-j
mac, and thousands more equally brave and1
heroic in this besieging Army?have seen them in
eamp, on the inarch, and on the field of battle,
and can testify to the severe trials, hardships,
exposure and suffering to which they ara inevitably
allied. Foot-sore, over-wearied, over-burthened
and often times, but necessarily, ill-fed ;
under torrid hi at and freezing cold have w? seen
them perform their duties manfully and cheerfully.
And we have also gouo over the field of carnage
when the grass was yet wet with blood ; have
A - - .1 ib .. i 1 d -<i> f Af i*1* or a i
11 Uflt vu Uift fKUlII\ITj IliU ?. vuuucu |
soldier's hist sigh ; and have counted hundreds of i
tombless heroes shot and mangled almost beyond
recognition.
Those dead soldiers, scattered over meadow*, j
grain-fields and orchards, or in trenches and j
parallels ; festering in the son or suuk and frozen
by the \finters front, with torn an l clotted gar- j
ments, always come back to ns when we reflect j
npon the shocking, terrible realities of the pres.!
eutwar. And how many hearts ore saddened, ;
how many homes are desolated by the loss of " the !
cnretnmiin? brave *' ??A year, or two years a~o, :
those dead heroes were at home, ou the farm, in i
the store, in the v.ovh-riopor in tin*manufactory:
talking of soldier-life, the camp, the march, the
bivouac, and jocosely saving that v.hert 4i this
cruel war is over " they would "shoulder their
erutch and show how fields were won." Alas!
they will never more return to relate campaign :
incidents or camp-fire tales. Grass is growing
nrpy thorn. the birds sinf* their lofcelv rec.uiem.
and summer flowers have written their epitaphs
in blossoms of red and cold.
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TV e owe an immense uebt of gratitude to the
rank and file of our armies. 'lhey };ave bonie the
great burthens of the war ; they Lave fought our
battles, won cur victories and rolled back the ,
accursed waves of Rebellion. Thousands have j
died on the field or in the hospital, and many j
thousands more have gone home with crippled
limbs or seriously impaired in health. Let us r.ot
forget Ihoso brave men. Let us not overlook j
their ill-paid services. We must thank them, and j
accord to them a*v,ell-earned claim to loyalty and I
patriotism. Th*y have four/It the great battles of i
covstUuiiciia'freedom btticer?t a Slave oligarchy and j
a JlcpulUcan Government. They are the Vxso- 1
tuld llKnoxs whom a grateful people and nation
should resect and honor.
The Chivalry.
" On onr return to the house, I found that Mr. J
Edmund Rheti, one of the active and influential,
political fhmilv of that name, had oil led. * * *
lie declared there were few persons in South Car-!
olina who would not soonc-r ask Great Britain to
take back the State than submit to the triumph of j
the Yankees. 'We are an agricultural people, j
pursuing our own system, and working out our I
own destiny, breeding up women aud men with !
some other purpose than to make them vulgar, i
fanatical, cheating Yankees?hyocritical, if as j
women they pretend to real virtue ; and lying, if !
as men they pretend to be honest. * * * Yon j
[England] must recognize us, sir, before the end |
of October."
The above was written at the Trescot "Plantation, '
rarnwell Island, Bread River, under date of April
23th, 18G1, and is an extract from the l>iary of
"Bull Run Russell," a men who, when the dust J
srnciVrt nf rrXnt kIihI! liave nassed i
away, will be seen?if the claims of any newspa- !
per writer now living shall tbon be toned worthy
of adjustment?to have been oftefier tlinn wo
now think impartial and truthful. A short time
before it was written the lihett mentioned therein,
was doing a lucfativo business in the collection
cf Northern demands against ^outhem creditors.
A short time afterwards, he and his wife and j
children, lea-wing their home, fled from the approach
of the armed force of an outraged country.
Last winter, in an obscure town in the interior of
lVi A /*-i? V>(men u-liinJi Virt Imilf
Vkllo SikUl", iiV V.UV.VU 4i UUW uvmvv > M?VM *?W <w ?... .
n Beaufort, and in which he lived, is now occ-*
pie:l by the U. S. Direct Tax Commissioners.
These few items in the history of Edmund ;
lihett, are applicable with no small degree of,
accuracy, to more tlam one of the pseudo-chivalry. ;
Instead cf the realization of their l>oastcd hopes 1
of speedy foreign recognition and assistance, they
see their homes occupied by the representatives
of the government they affected so much to despise,
when they could no longer wield it to suit 1
themselves ; while thev, thinned in number by !
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the sword, by want, disappointment and disease, :
arc many of them fugitives and vagabonds in a I
land growing daily more desolate from the r.ivo- j
ges of war. The united, loyal North, with credit
and resources unimpaired, and, with a population j
increasing a million a year, can bear the sufferings
of this war till it shall grind the attempted
ijviuuivni IV uuc, uttuv.
?13v a recent regulation of the l'ension Office,
many mothers of deceased soldiers are now entitled
to pensions who were not previously. Under
the original regulations, a mother was required i
to prove her marriage, and only tcvunccd mothers
t ere entitled to pensions, while under the present
regol itiens any mother of u deceased otiiecr or
soldier, if she was dependant wholly or in part
on Lor deceased son for support, is entitled to a '
pension, ?-hcther lier husband bo living or not,
and it is not necessary for a mother to prove Ler :
marriage.
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Fr.r Tht JS'nc Sottlh.
Fort Pulaski.
Of the doings or daring military or naval at thin
Post or in Tybee Hoads, so fur as pen and paper
are concerned, save to tlie starred shoulder, all
must be hush. Very veil: Heaven forbid any
utterance or effort that should locffce a crr.nib cf
comfort in the mouths of traitors. Let the lean
rebels board themselves or starve ; and I think
the confederacy will be a costly boarding school
for the coming season.
Oar correspondence can embrace only the little
episodes and accompaniments of cur regular field
and garrison service. And since it is alike lawful
and profitable for faithful soldiers to season their
exercises with the spices of variety, we take a
little innocent indulgence in this way by an interpolation
of the stv.dy'cf nature with the severer
role of outpost duty ar.d the manipulation of
racnslerguns. Aye, mid who dees not Iotc the
study of nature?the living, limitless volume cf
law and beauty, ever ccmir.g forth in new chapters
of eLanns, grunJeur, sublimity, and 01 mystery
because our minds are infantile and must bo
nr JTrnrd trnnrrl nrv.-nr 1.
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The fngs and rains and heats and chills and
gales and calmaof this semi-tropical, semi-oceanic
region induced our esteemed and scholarly Post
Surgeon, Dr. G. W. Grosvenor, to institute as far
as practicable certain meteorological observations,
lie began on the first of November last v.ith simply
a thermometer and a hygrometer, taking threo
daily readings from each. Ilia tables for November
and DecemberVrre valuable. With the opening
cf this year he commenced to observe and
record the currents of air and the fulls of rain.
Possessing little else than jack knives and hatchets,
the instruments we Lave extemporised, made
of tin, pine and palmetto, are not to be despised,
albeit they do not reach a Smithsonian rank. "Wo
neea a compass, a goca ram-guage, a carometer
and a suitable book, or & set of blank books for
records. At prcswrt we steer our course bv our
wits ami the start; aiid we can see the north star
when tlie confederate clouds and Savannah fogs
will permit. The general results of these observations
will Lave both a sanitary and scientific
value. It is hoped that the observations thus
inaugurated may be favored by the powers that
be, and so be continued for years, as auxiliary to
the posts of mcieorologial observation in other
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us I am persuaded that The New South is intonated
in the triumphs of philosophy as well as patriotism.
3d It. I. II. AnTILLEUT.
P. S.?METEOKOLOCJICAL.
Subjoined are some of the generalized meteorological
data obtained by our Fost Surgeon for
the months named. "We give only the readings
from the thermometrical tables : those of the
hygrometrieal would be of less popular interest.
FOR NOVEMBER.
Highest 79- ; lowest 32? ; highest daily mean
7P ; lowest daily mean 33? ; monthly mean 62 :
r.tl. (vilrlnsf * littlfcice rm nirdit
of 30; from 7 a m., 20tli to 7a.m., 30th. mercurial
column f.ll SC.
Foa DKCEiinrr..
Highest 79- ; lowest 32? ; highest daily mean
C6 - ; lowest daily mean -5CP ; monthly mean 52 J;
coldest day 1st; -wannest 17th ; ice I of an inch
thick on morning of 1st.
3d B. L H. ABTILLKT.T.
Fort Pulaski, Gcv, Jan. 11th, 1864.
Personal.?Ms. Btxsdic r, editor of the Cleveland
JfeirtU, arrived by the Arago, Monday morning
last. The object of Lis visit is to look after
the interests of the Ohio troops in this Department,
Ft si" eoy and Tactics by Gen. G. IT. Duron*,
of the Swiss army , has just been issued by Van*
Nosteand, the publisher of military boolcs in
New York. We have a few copies of this excellent
work for sale at our store.