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| Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome outdoor snow black and white General Stevens's brigade occupied Beaufort, S. C., on the evening of December 5th, 1861. It was a most brilliant and suggestive scene. The moon—just at the half—shone with splendor, reminding one of that beautiful passage in Homer which represents the orb of night rising merely to shed a glory upon the Grecian arms. At the end of the street the river flowed in silence and light. Here and there the streets were dotted with bivouac fires, around which arms were stacked and soldiers lounging. (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War..., edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) General Stevens's brigade occupied Beaufort, S. C., on the evening of December 5th, 1861. It was a most brilliant and suggestive scene. The moon—just at the half—shone with splendor, reminding one of that beautiful passage in Homer which represents the orb of night rising merely to shed a glory upon the Grecian arms. At the end of the street the river flowed in silence and light. Here and there the streets were dotted with bivouac fires, around which arms were stacked and soldiers lounging. (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War..., edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) | ||||
