The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-28 00:00:00

THE 19TH REGIMENT AT THE ATTACK OF

THE REDAN.

An officer writes, under date Sept. 10 :
The 19th Regiment has suffered severely. We
have 10 officers wounded, 4 dangerously, and the
others, all but 3, severely. We have 27 killed and
148 wounded among the men, and this out of a force
of 376, all we could collect to go into action. Some
of the officers particularly distinguished themselves.
Captain Bright, who was doing the duty of pay.
master, in the absence of Captain Olendining from
illness, and who might have remained in camp if he
had chosen, went at the head of his company into
action, was in the thick of it, but came out unhurt.
Captain Chippendall stood for a long time, amidst a
shower of musket balls and grape, on the first parapet
of the Reden, waving his forage cap on the top of his
sword to encourage the men to come on. Nothing
could exceed his gallantry. It is a miracle that he
escaped. At last he was pushed from the parapetl
into the ditch, and fell among the heaps of
dead and dying. A man who was by his side
also fell at the same time, and was transfixed through
the body by a bayonet. Lieutenant Goren and Lieu-
tenant Moleaworth displayed great bravery. The
latter, though a youngster—quite a lad, just joined
had the coolness to light a cigar while up at theßedan,
in the midst of the fire. A shell burst over his head,
one fragment knocked the cigar out of his mouth,
another struck him in the back of the head and sent
him ceaseless into the ditch. It was not for many
hours after he was carried up to camp that he
recovered from the first effects of the blow from the
piece of shell ; it must have glanced off, for the
wound it made was very slight. Major Warden was
knocked over before he got up to the ditch ; so also
was Colonel Uoett, who commanded the regiment.
the former had a narrow escape. A piece of shell, sr
a stone knocked up by a round shot, passed across
his face, injuring one eye, and stunning him. lie
was rendered blind for a time, but his sight is in
no danger. Colonel Unett received a ball io
the hip, which became fixed in the thigh-bone. He
was being carried back to camp, and had reached
the first parallel in safety, when a musket ball en-
tered his neck and shattered his collar bone to pieces.
One of the men who was carrying him on the
stretcher was also wounded at the same time. Ooe
of the last remaining on the parapet of the Redan
was a gallant young boy, Lieutenant Massy, who
had only lately joined the regiment. Just at the
last the poor youth received a ball which broke hie
thigh bone, and he fell down towards the ditch. In the
harry he was not noticed by the men who were retiring,
sod he was left among the heaps of dead unable to
aim till an early hour the next morning. Some;
men of the 93rd Highlanders then noticed him, sad
he was carried up to camp, where he had been gives
lap for killed. He did not fall to the bottom of the
ditch, and some Russians ooming out took away his
sword and haversack, but did not maltreat him. A
few of our men were taken prisoners in the Redan,
and were only found in the town to-day. They had
received injuries which prevented them from moving,
and were left in houses which had been converted into
hospitals.