The Shreveport weekly news., 1861-08-12
4 PARALLEL.

The Ninety-1 lilghHndtrs, OH
the eve of their departure for New
Orleans in lSl4,'were reviewed at
Portsmouth by the Duke of Cumber
land, and made magnificent display.
They were over thousand strong,
and were considered the best regi-
! ment in the British service. They
departed amid the hurras of the peo-
pie. and the confident assurances OF
glorious career. In few months at
terw ards, about two hundred ragged,
diseased and wretched looking crea-
lures were landed in the same town,
and great was the surprise and hor-
ror OF the people TO learn that this
was the remnant of the magnificent
corps which had departed but few
months before with snch such bril-
liant hopes and promises. Where
were the Others of this stalwart regi-
mcnt-thosc gigantic Highlanders-
any one of whom was considered
the equal of three Americans The
D., historian of the great victory on the
plains of Chalmettc can answer tins
! question. The poor old deiorrncd
negro, who, Will, so solemn an air
points to the mysterious and desola,e
spo. near tn. swamp that girds that
famous field. where the grass is per
mitted to grow mdiSturbed by the
ploughman. VIII tell in few and rude
words the sad story Of the doughty
children of the mist. OF the thou
sand -,ont Highlanders who came
four thousand miles to desolate the
country and destroy the lives Of n
people, who had done them no harm,
; more than five hundred were dePos-
tied in the cold, damp soil OF Louisi-
ana, and scores Of others fingered
among us, with dreadful wounds,
gently and generously tended and
nurscd by th.very people whomthey
had abandoned thcirhoIne- to siaugh-
ter and degrade. Among the slain
Of this fine regiment Were all their
principal oificcrs-their Colonel.
Lieut.. Colonel. and Major
The affecting story OF til. .o&d
llighlanders has beon reproduced in
E the war now waged agairsttite South
bv the reckless akcc invaders, in
the fate of the Fire Zouavcs. of New
. York. They left their homes IN
:. grand array. paradiug the streets amid
. the eNultant shouts of fine v"latil,
, people Of their great city. Then
youthful and accomplished couman
:. der was the cynocure OF all eyes, th'
idle of .nthusiastic W omen. the envy
., and admiration OF all hirli-spirites
e youth-and his gallait. followers in
Il 81 a Ek- s,t
:. manly bearing and their s'alway
i forms. Their appearance upon ;h'
>. arena of conf;c, WAS hailed as one "
= the great events OF the campaign, 'h'
: most encouraging u.anitcs;a.i"Hs=o
n the earnostness and determinations "
y the Northern people. such was theI
= grand 4,bnt in the great drama.
;. The three months al tir culis'IrvU
>, of "thr Now York Pets hav" near
G. " c>girsl, In = few day 'ir"y re
a. turn 10 their homes. Behold n"'
=. their ,riunphal entry i.sto the cit.
70 which they lief, amid such grand d.
s uon-tr;t,inus. Two hundred GempI
,n allied ragged. care-wern. deso!at
, looking young men now sneak hacl
-, as the .ull representation OF III" splrl
- did CORPS which the "galiant ELL
-, worth" bat a few weeks before hf,
-. marched forth to victory, conquce
i and spoils. These me all thai NJ
: left of his eleven hundred. Ihe
-, brilliant Colonel fell carly III til" con
-. tiic,, aud now his worthy success,
=. has followed him in the tcrrib
~ slaughter at Manassas, IN this ="
n trowtul pligl: will IT," Fire Iouv'
ln return 20 their friends and the
:. homes. May their fate be l'ss'
" not only to them. bu, to all other
.r who suffer themselves to he -cduc'
~, into the wicked undertaking OF inv
,,- ding aud suhduing free people.
Dclr0.