{"id":6215,"date":"2020-06-09T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2021-07-06T11:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:22:56","slug":"washington-light-infantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/washington-light-infantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Light Infantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/49946892961\/\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, South Carolina, Harper's Weekly, June 9, 1860: The Encampment at Orangeburg, South Carolina\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49946892961_7f3781e6ee_b.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, South Carolina, Harper's Weekly, June 9, 1860: The Encampment at Orangeburg, South Carolina\" width=\"1023\" height=\"596\" \/><\/a>The Encampment at Orangeburg, South Carolina<\/h3>\n<p>We present our readers with a view of the encampment of the Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, South Carolina. \u00a0 The point chosen was in the village of Orangeburg, about eighty miles from the city. \u00a0 This village is known as one of the most beautiful in the state. \u00a0 The residences are spacious, and the lots varying size from four to twelve acres. \u00a0 The shade trees form a striking feature, and add much to the attractions of the place. \u00a0 In one of the most beautiful of these grounds the Infantry made their camp. \u00a0 As will be seen by a glance at the picture, the immense shade trees and luxuriant shrubbery cause the tents to appear quite small; the opening through the centre of the encampment is the main avenue\u2013thirty feet wide\u2013which leads to the family mansion. \u00a0 At the entrance of it stands the &#8220;guard tent&#8221; and near the house the &#8220;marquee&#8221; for the officers. \u00a0 On either side are the tents, arranged in the order of a battalion encampment, in all twenty-four\u2013twelve on the right and twelve on the left of the main street. \u00a0 The tents are arranged in rows of six each, which face each other on streets of convenient width.<\/p>\n<p>The company carried with them the &#8220;Eutaw flag,&#8221; the only standard of the Revolution which is known to exist in the state, and which was given to the corps by the widow of Col. William Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Light Infantry was organized in 1807 during the excitement growing out of the &#8220;Leopard and Chesapeake affair&#8221; and is known as &#8220;the banner corps of South Carolina. \u00a0 It is at present commanded by Captain Charles H. Simonton, a prominent lawyer of the city.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Note: The dates of the encampment are not identified with this image and article from the June 9, 1860 issue of Harper&#8217;s Weekly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Encampment at Orangeburg, South Carolina We present our readers with a view of the encampment of the Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, South Carolina. \u00a0 The point chosen was in the village of Orangeburg, about eighty miles from the city. \u00a0 This village is known as one of the most beautiful in the state. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-harpers-weekly"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}