The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-25

ion had been serving meanwhile in the
regiment was again transferred in 1861,
selected, as was stated in the dispatch
from home, for their sobriety and aDste-
mious habits, great activity and capabili-
ty for bearing the extremes of heat and
cold" The campaign resulted in the con-
quest of the Windward Islands and of the
Havana. From the West Indies the
BLACK Watch" was sent back to New
York, and had three years of campaign
ing against the Indian tribes. At last
after eleven years, what was left of the
regiment-it had lost $40 officers and men
in killed and wounded-was sent home.
The survivors were not without the solace
of prize money, won in the conquest OF
Havana. Each private had the magnif-
cent sum of "a Is SID, while Lord Able
male, who commanded, received fl22,96f.
The regiment remained at home for
eight years, of which two only were spent
in Scotland Cleft in l743 and not revisited
till 1775). In 1776 it was ordered to Amer
lea, where hostiites were in active prog
ress. 1t is interesting to be told that out
of the 1,O12 rank and file who embarked
all but seven were Scots, and all but eigh-
ty-three Highlanders. One of the trans
ports was captured on its voyage by an
American privateer, but the soldiers over
powered the prize crew and navigated the
ship into the James river Unlucklly,
Jamestown was then in possession of the
colonial forces. The regiment had its
share of whatever glory was won in the
war of independence. After the conclusion
of peace it remained in North America,
returning to England in 1879, and six
months later to Scotland where it had
ha ct Of nj of
turbances caused in the Highlands by the
wholesale evictions (Mr. Forbes is a little
out when he talks of "the biting words
which the patriot Galgacus addressed to
Agrippa, 'Solitudinem faciunt, pacem APP
pellant' - Galgacus is represented as
having addressed them not to Agrippa or
Agricola, but to his own tribesmen; but
we may doubt whether he does not owe at
least the epigrammatic form of the SEN
tment to the historian)
The next campaign was in Flanders, and
with this is connected the famous episode
Of the Red Feather" Late on Jan.
the English pickets near the WAL were
compelled to retreat. A cavalry regiment
was ordered to cover the movement and
protect the guns but broke and fed. Sir
David Dundas called out: "Forty-sec O1d,
for Gods sake and for the honor Of your
country retake those guns They did
retake them, and they wear the red feath-
er to this day, having vindicated some sew
enty years ago their special right over
other Highland regiments to this distinc-
ton
After other less celebrated services came
the famous victory of Alexandria, which
Mr.. Forbes describes with more than us
ual fullness, and after Alexandria, with
an Interval of four years at home and
three years at Gibraltar, Corunna, where
the brigade which was made up of the
Forty-second, the Fourth and the Fiji
tleth bore the brunt of the at
tack The last look that Sir John
Moore cast on the struggle Of that day
was turned to the BLACK Watch" His
countenance expressed satisfaction"
wrote his aide-de-camp, Henry Hardinge,
afterward Lord Hardinge. when / told
him that the regiment was advancing" A
few Highland soldiers helped the officers
OF his stan to bury him a few hours later
on one Of the bastions Of the citadel
In the peninsular war the most active
service Of the regiment was rendered at
the sanguinary battles fought at or with
In the French frontier Al Quatre Bras
il suffered severely losing 298 officers and
men In killed and wounded. II was pres
ent at Waterloo. but was not holly en-
gagged. II ought TO be noted that the five
officers returned as wounded at Waterloo
had an been on the same list at Quatre
Bras.
After thirty-nlne years OF peace, in tie
battle of the Alma. when the Black
Watch was brigaded with two other
Highland regiments, the Seventy ninth
and the Ninety-third, under the command
OF Sir Colin Campbell. Men, said Sir Co
In. you are going into action. Remem-
her this. whoever Is wounded, no matter
what his rank, must lie where he falls un-
"a the bandsmen come 70 attend TO aim.
No soldiers must be carrying of wounded
comrades. II any man does such thing
his name shall be stuck up In his parish
church" Sir Colin was eminently prac-
teal. but he knew also the value Of sent-
mont: for he won the hearts Of his men
by getting leave TO wear the Highland
bonnet When, soon after The victory. he
rode into the square wearing the bonnet,
In which the heckles OF the three regi-
ments had been combined, he was greeted
with such volumes of cheering that both
the English and French armies were
startled into wonderment as 20 what was
going on.
The BLACK Watch" has other. names -
among them Cawnpore and Tol-cl-Kebir
on tho roll Of rs achievements.