The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-11-15
HISTORY OF LoNGsTREET's CORPS.

HISTORY OF LONGSTREET'S CORPS.
General E. P. ALEXANDER, Chief of Artillery of
LoNosrREET's Corps, and now Professor in the
University of South Carolina, has acceded to the
request of Gen. LoNGsnEET, aud announces that
he has s'undertaken to prepare for publication q
history of his command during the war;" Gen.
ALEXANDER has undertaken difficult task, but
one which, with the assistance of Gen. LoNosTREET
and his Division, Brigade, Rcgimental and Bate
ry commanders, and intelligent subordinates, we
have no doubt he will accomplish satisfactorily,
and with fidelity. faithful history of that Corps
is imperatively demanded, and the announcement
will thrill through thousands of hearts from the
Patomsc to the Rio Grande. NIahy Of our Gene
rails were the pets of newspaper correspondents
and thumbpaper historians, and they and their
commands were written into notoriety. LONG,
srEEr and his men had no BOSWELL to attend them
and chronicle their deeds; but that courage which
defends. that herosm which darcs, that FIRE of
soul which burns path of fury through sea of
terrors, stand recorded over the unnumbered
graves of the dead, and glsten in the memorial
light of thoir tattercd flags, and on the SCARED
bodies and empty sleeves of the living No histo-
rian can ever write prouder history than that of
LoNGsTREET and his men if they are famous,
they won the Immortality of name by hard fight
ing, under leader who was justly styled "the
hard fighter, "a leader who inspired the enemy
with terror, and possessed the unbounded conf
dence of Gen. LEE, for coolness skill and courage
If STUART and HAMPTON were the Murat's-if
PELHAM was the Desaix-if JAcKsoN was the Nc
Donald-if LEE was the grand Napoleon of the
Army of Northern virginia-beyond all contro-
yersy LosdsTREET was its Ney, and the Yelling
ton of the East Tennessee campaigns. he COM
bines the qualities of great soldier e., the
spirit and dash to storm strong position; the
stubborn courage and cool judgment to maintain
his ground against superior numbers, and the
skill and ability to control and direet an army, Ell
ther for offensive or defensive operations.
LoSasrnEET's highest praise will be found in
the official reports of ROBERT E. LEE, and that
great chieftain could write more correct history
Of LoNesTREET and his men, than any man now
living, LEE trusted in him, and was never de-
ceiyed, for he knew that LoNasTREEY could send
that vast and terrible aggregation OF armed men
his corps-With resistless momentum, forward, ev-
erywhere to the field of danger, Was the centre
to be held, LosesqnEE7 held it; was the enetny's
cersre to be broken, LoNasTREEr broke it; and
well might LEE, on the 9th day Of May, 1864, in
the wilderness, call LoNesTREEr his "war-horse,"
his fright hand" On she fatal and humiliating
field MT Appumatto1, LoEGsTnEET surrendered the
only organized portion of LEES army; and the
silent tear, the sihed sob and muttered CURSE told
how bitter was their humiliation in surrendering
at last to foe whom they had always heated.
But We forbear. We fought, marched and suf-
fered with "OID TUD," as the boys used to call