The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-26 00:00:00

SPBA'STOPOL,

STORMING AND CAPTURE

OF THE

MALAKHOFF,

AND

RETREAT OF THE RUSSIANS,

(From the Times' Special Correspondent.)
FOURTH DIVISION CAMP,
MONDAY, SEPT. 10.
The contest on which the eyes of Europe have
been turned so long is nearly decided—the event
on which the hopes of
so many mighty empires
depended is all but determined. Sebastopol is in
flames ! The fleet, the object of so much diplo-
matic controversy, and of so raanybloody struggles,
has disappeared in the deep ! One more great act of
carnage has been added to the tremendous, but
glorious tragedy, of which the whole world, from
the most civilised nations down to the most bar-
barous hordes of the East, has been the anxious;
and excited audience. Amid shouts of victory
and cries of despair—in frantic rejoicing and
passionate sorrow a pall of black smoke,
streaked by the fiery flashings of exploding fort-
resses, descends upon the stage, on which has
been depicted so many varied traits of human
misery and of human greatness, such high en-
durance and calm courage, such littleness and
weekness—across which have stalked characters
which history may develope as largely as the
struggle in which they were engaged, and swell
to gigantesque proportions, or which she may
dwarf into pettiest dimensions, as unworthy the
part they played. A dull, strange silence, broken
at distant intervals by the crash of citadels fuel
palaces as they fly into dust, succeeds to the in-
cessant dialogue of the cannon which have spoken
so loudly and so angrily throughout an entire year,
and tired armies, separated from each other by a
sea of fires, rest on their arms and gaze with
varied. emotions on all that remains of the object
of their conflicts. How trite all these announce-
ments appear ! How disheartening it is .to
the writer to feel that all he is describiee
is known in England, and has been discuse,ed
and canvassed iu every homestead ere he cen
sit down to tell the story, and that by the
time his letters reach those for whom they
are intended all that to him appears as neve),
Mel recent as it is interesting and important, will
ire a twice-told tale! To every one out here the
o cutreneea of the last few days seem prodigious,
startling, and momentous. Time will show -vent,-
ther we duly appreciate them. On Saturday we
felt that the greet success of our valiant Allies
was somewhat tarnished by our own failure, and
it was doubtful whether the Russians would aban-
don alt hope of retaking the Malakhoff. On Sun-
day, ere noon, we were walking about the streets
of Sebastopol and gazing on its ruins. The army
is now in suspense as to its future. The south side
of the city is in the hands of the Allies. On the
north side the great citadel and numerous regular
forts, backed, by enormous earthworks and defended
by anumerousarmy, bid us defiance across a narrow
strip of water, and Russia may boast that she has
not yet lost Sebastopol. The Allied fleet remains
outside, paralysed by Fort Constantine and its de-
pendencies, and every one is going about asking
" What are we to do now ?" ,
In my last letter, a portion of which was written
ere the mail started on Saturday, I was so confused
by the accumulation of events that I made a seri-
ous mistake in my dates, which I trust has been
rectified at home. It is rather hard to have to
sit down to save the post when one knows that iu
15 minutes from the time he is writing he will be
the witness of a general assault on one of the
strongest places in the world. The last and decisive
cannonade was, as the world knows ever so longago,
begun on the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 5, by
the French, against the Russian right, consisting
of the Quarantine Batteries, the Bastion Centrale,
and the Bastion du Mat with great vigour' and
effect, and at night began a devastating bombard.
nient, in which all the allied batteries joined.
A frigate was fired by a French shell and sunk
at night. On the morning of the 6th the English
and French together opened the cannonade, be-
neath which the Russian batteries were almost
broken to pieces, and which they did not dare to
answer. In the evening the bombardment was
renewed and kept up all night ; a fire appeared
behind the Redan, and the enemy seemed by their
constant signalling to be in much uneasiness it
was observed that great qvantities of forage were
being sent across the bridge from the north to the
south side, although there were no cavalry in the
latter. On the 7th the cannonade was continued
in salvoes, as before, and it was remarked that
t'ie town showed in an unmistakeable manner the •
terrible energy of the nightly bombardment.
Nearly every house within range was split and in
ruins. The bridge between the north and the
south side was much crowded all day with men
and carts passing to and fro, and large con-
voys were seen entering and leaving the town
at the north side. Towards evening the head of
the great dockyard shears, so long a prominent
object batteries, caught fire, and burnt
fiercely
from our
rcelyineiehigilind:
which was raging all
day. A two-decker was set on fire by the French
shells, and was destroyed,
and a steamer was
busily employed towing a large dismasted frigate
to the dockyard, out of range. 111 the middle of
the day there was a council of Generals, and at
2 o'clock it became generally known that the
allies would assault the place at noon on the Bth,
after a vigorous cannonade and bombardment.
The hour was well selected, as it was certain that
the Russians are accustomed to indulge in a siesta
about that time. In the course of the night there
was an explosion behind the Redan. And now
comes the memorable

DAY OF THE ASSAULT.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 8.

The weather changed suddenly yesterday. This
morning it became bitterly cold. A biting wind
right from the north side of Sebastopol blew
intolerable clouds of harsh dust into our faces.
The sun was obscured ; the sky was of a leaden
wintery grey. Early in the morning a strong
force of cavalry, under the command of Colonel
Hodge, was moved up to the front and formed a
chain of sentries in front of Cathcart's-hill and all
along our lines. No person was allowed to pass
this line, unless be was a staff officer or was pro-
.vidA with a pass. Another line of sentries in
the rear of them was intended to stop stragglers
and idlers from Ralaklava, and the object in view
was probably to prevent the Russians gathering
any intimation of our attack from the unusual
aecumnlation of people on the look-out bins.
If that were so it would have been better to
have kept the cavalry more to the rear, and
•
not to display to the enemy a line of Hussars,
Lancers, and Dragoons along our front. At
11.30 the Highland Brigade, under Brigadier
Cameron, marched up from Namara and took
up its position in reserve at the Right Attack,
and the Guards., also in res?rve, were posted 'On
the same side of the Woronzoff-road. The first
brigade of the Fourth Division served the trenches
of the Left Attack the night before, and remained
in them.. The second brigade of the Fourth Di•
vi;ion was in reserve. The Guards, who served
tl!e trenches of the Left Attack, and only marched
out that morning, were turned out again after
arriving at their camp. The Third Division,
i):1„soci, on the bill side before their camp,- were
1'0:so in reserve, in readiness to move down by the
Left Attack in case, their services were required.
General Pelissier during the night collected about
30,000 men in and about the Marnelon, to form the
s one i n ‘ ' col..umn s for the Malakhoffan d Little Redin
..
,aad to provide the ne,;essary reserves. The French.
wore reinforced by 5,000 Sardinians, who marched I

to leave the field. Col. Handcock fell mortally '
wounded in the head by a bullet, and never spoke
again. Capt. Hammond fell dead. Major Wels-
ford was killed on the spot. Capt. Grove was
severely wounded. Many officers and men were
hit and fell ; and of the commanders of parties
only acting Brigadier-General Windham, Capt.
Fyers, Capt. Lewes, and Capt. Maude got un-
touched into the Redan, and escaped scatheless
from the volleys of grape and rifle balls which
swept the flanks of the works towards the salient.
It was a few minutes after 12 when our men left
the fifth parallel. The musketry commenced at
once, and in less than five minutes, during which
the troops had to pass over about 30 yards from
the nearest approach to the parapet of the Redan,
they had lost a large proportion of their officers,
and were deprived of the aid of their leaders, with
the exceptions I have stated. The Riflemen ad-
vanced admirably, but from their position they
could not do much to reduce the fire of the guns on
the flanks and below the re-entering angles. The
bravery and coolness of that experienced, deserv-
ing, and much-neglected officer, Captain Fyers,
were never more brilliantly displayed, or urgently
called for. And here let me ask how it
is that an officer like Captain Fyers, with
twenty-one years' full service, who went through
the campaigns of Candahar and Affghanistan
in 1841 and 1842, and was present in five ac-
tions—who was at Khelat, and was with his
regiment throughout Notes campaign—who was
conspicuous for his gallantry at the Alma, and
whose conduct in the trenches has been beyond all
praise, is exposed to the pain and mortification of
seeing young men who were scarcely born when he
was a soldier raised above his head because they
have had the good fortune to look at a battle from
a distance, or to ride in the rear of some cautious
general ? I know nothing of Captain Fyers' past
services except by Hart's Army List, by which I
learn, also, that he has purchased all his steps.
Of his conduct at the Alma and of his present ser-
vices I hear the praise from every lip. It is to be
hoped, at all events, that the question will not do
him any harm, and if it does not, it is as well that
the country should know how well he has served
her. However, it is time to return to our storm-
ing party. As they came nearer the enemy's
fire became less fatal. They crossed the abattis
without difficulty; it was torn to pieces and de-
stroyed by our shot, and the men stepped over and
through it with ease. The light division made
straight for the salient and projecting angle of the
Bedell, and came to the ditch, which is here about
15 feet deep. The party detailed for the purpose
placed the ladders, but they were found to be too
short. However, had there been enough of them
that would not have mattered much, but come had
been left behind in the hands of dead or wounded
men, and others had been broken, so that if one
can credit the statements of those who were pre-
sent there were not more than six or seven ladders
at the salient. The men led by their officers leaped
into the ditch, and scrambled up the other side,
whence they got up the parapet almost without
opposition, for the few Russians who were in front
ran back and got behind their traverses and breast-
works as soon as they saw our men on the top, and
opened fire upon them. To show what different
impressions the same object can make on different
people, let me remark that one officer of rank told
me the Russians in the Redan did not exceed 150
men when he got into it, arid that the men could
have carried the breastwork with the greatest ease
if they had only made a rush for it, and he ex-
pressed an opinion that they had no field-pieces in-
side the breastwork. A regimental officer, on the
other hand, po,itively assured me that when he got
oil the top the parapet of the salient he saw at
about 100 yards in advance of him a breastwork
with gaps in it, through which were run the
muzzles of field-pieces, and that in the rear of it
were compact masses of Russian infantry, the front
rank kneeling with fixed bayonets as if prepared
to receive a charge of cavalry, while the two rear
ranks over them kept up a sharp and destructive
fire on our men. The only way to reconcile these
discrepancies is to suppose that the first spoke
of the earliest stage of the assault, and that the
latter referred to a later period when the Russ
sians may have opened embrasures in the breastwo: k
and had been reinforced by the fugitives from the
Malakhoff, and by the troops behind the barracks in
its rear. Lamentable as it no doubt is, and incre-
dible almost to those who know hew the British
soldier generally behaves before the enemy, the
men, when they got on the parapet, were seized by
some strange infatuation, and began firing, instead
of following their officers, who now began to fall
fast as they rushed on in front and tried to stimu-
late their soldiers by their example. Notwithstand-
ing the popular prejudice to the contrary, most
men stand tire much better than closing with an
enemy. It is difficult enough sometimes to get
cavalry to charge if they can find any decent excuse
to lay by their swords and take to pistol and eara-
bine, with which they are content to pop away for
ever, but when cover of any kind is near at band a
trench-bred infantry man finds the charms of the
cartridge quite irresistible. The small party of the
90th, inech diminished, went on gallantly towards
the breastwork, but they were too weak to force it,
and they had to retire and get behind the traverses,
where men of different regiments had already con-
gregated, and were keeping up a brisk fire on the
Russians, whose heads were just visible above the
breastwork. Simultaneously with the head of the
storming party of the Light Division, Colonel
Windham bad got inside the Redan on their right,
below the salient on the proper left face of the
Redan, but in spite of all his exertions, could do
little more than the gallant officers of the 901 k and
97th, and of the supporting regiments.
As the. Light Division rushed out in the front
they were swept by the guns of the Barrack Battery
and by several pieces on the proper right of the
Redan, loaded heavily with grape, which caused
them considerable loss ere they reached the salient
or apex of the work at which they were to assault.
The storming columns of the Second Division, issu-
ing- out of the fifth parallel rushed up immediately
after the Light Division, but when they came up
close to the apex Brigadier Windham very judici-
ously brought them by a slight detour on the right
flank of the Light Division, so as to come a little
down on the slope of the proper left face of the Re-
dan. The first embrasure to which they came was in
flames, but, moving on to the next, the men leaped
into the ditch, and, with the aid of ladders and of
each other's hands, scrambled up on the other side,
climbed the parapet, or poured in through the em-
brasure which was undefended. Colonel Windham
was the first or one of the very first men in on this
side, and with him entered Daniel Mahoney, a great
grenadier of the 41st, Killeauy, and Coruellis of the
same regiment. As Mahoney entered with a cheer,
he was shot through the head by a Russian rifleman
and fell dead across Colonel Windham, and at the
same moment Killeany and Cornellis were both
wounded. The latter claims the reward of 5/. oft.
fered by Colonel Herbert to the first man of his di-
vision who entered the Redan. Running parallel to
the faces of the Redan there is, as I have described,
an inner parapet, intended to shield the gunners
at the embrasures from the effects of any shell
which might fall into the body of the work, and
strike them down if this high hank were not there
to protect them from the splinters. Several cuts
in the rear of the embrasures permitted the men
to retire in case of need inside, and very strong
and high traverses ran all along the sides of the
work itself to afford them additional shelter. At
the base of the Redan, before the re-entering
angles, is a breastwork, or rather a parapet with
an irregular curve, up to a man's neck, which runs
in front of the body of the place. As our men
entered through the embrasure; the few Russians
who were between the salient and this breastwork
retreated behind the latter, and got from the tra-
verses to its protection. From it they poured in a
quick fire on the parapet of the salient, which was
crowded by the men of the Light Division, and on
the gaps through the inner parapet of the Radan,
and our men, with an infatuation which all officers
deplore, but cannot always remedy on such occa-
sions, began to return the fire of the enemy with-
out advancing or crossing behind the traverses,
loaded and fired as quickly as they could, but did
but little execution as the Russians were well
covered by the breastwork. There were also groups
of Russian riflemen behind the lower traverses near
the base of the Redan, who kept up a galling fire
on our men. As the alarm of an assault was spread
the enemy came rushing up from the barracks in
rear of the Redan, and increased the force and in-
tencity of their fire, while our soldiers dropped.. fast
,tlfireoirmimmhbility
which the
voice
anda(l the encouraged
weakness
enemyanwer,e w, ell protected. In vain the officers, by
col daring,iropros stiroinedthtaistutrghoe
our
Redan was mined, and that if they advanced they
Theyexam example
would all be blown up, but many of them acted as
so'ldiderlscotn.by
became the men of Alma and Inkerman, and, rush-
ing
fire. The officers fell on all sides,
courage. The men of the
to the front, were swept down by
sin (trilieedeenustrnyiesr
the enemy's fire by their e
confusion. The 19th men t
88th, nor did the
different regiments became min;leddthdgnetohteorairno in-
extricablefor
the orders of the officers of the
ment. The officers
t sight
soldiers
could not find their men—the men Thad lost onfotthebe2l3odogheteodhtibseregi
commands of an officer
who did
of their own officers.
Windham, were wounded or rendered
the guidance of the attack. That gallant
All the Brigadiers,
suanvfiet()Zir.
Pt. n,
attack, and to lead them against the enemy. ro-
• 11 • mark could do to form Lis men
.fio)rl7.7er
ceeding from traverse to traverse, he coaxed the

up from the Tchernaya last night. Itwas arranged
thfat the French were to attack the Malakhoff at noon,
and, as soon as their attack began, that we were
to assault the Redan. At theisame time a strong
column of French was, I understand, to make a
diversion on the left and menace the line of the
Bastion du Mat, but I do not believe it was in-
tended to operate seriously against this part of
' the town, the possession of which, in a military
point of view, would be of minor importance.
The cavalry sentries were posted at 8.30. At
10.30 the Second Division and the Light Divi-
I sion moved down to the trenches, and were placed
lin the advanced parallels as quietly and unostenta-
tiously as possible. About the same hour*General
Simpson and staff moved down to the second paral-
lel of the Green-hill Battery. Sir Harry Jones, too
ill to move hand or foot, nevertheless insisted on
being carried down to witness the assault, and was
borne to the parallel on a litter, in which he re-
mained till all was over. It was, as I have said, a
bitter cold day, and a stranger would have been
astonished at the aspect of the British Generals
as they viewed the assault. The Commander-in-
! Chief, General Simpson, sat in the trench, with
his nose and eyes just facing the cold and dust,
and his cloak drawn up over his head to protect
him against both. General Jones wore a red
1 nightcap, and reclined on his litter, and Sir
IRichard Airey, the Quartermaster-General, had a
white poczet-handkerchief tied over his cap and
ears, which detracted somewhat from a martial
and belligerent aspect. The Duke of Newcastle
was stationed at:Cathcart's-hill in the early part of
the day, and afterwards moved off to the right to
the Picket-house looking out over the Mroronzoff-
road. All the amateurs and travelling gentlemen,
who rather abound here just now, wore in a state
of great excitement, and dotted the plain in eccen-
I tric attire, which recalled one's old memories of
Cowes, and yachting and sea-bathing--were
engaged in a series of subtle manoeuvres to turn
the flank of unwary sentries, and to get to the
front, and their success was most creditable to
their enterprise and ingenuity.
The Tartars, Turks, and Eupatorians were sin-
gularly perturbed for such placid people, and
thronged every knoll which commanded the
smallest view of the place. At 10.45 General
Pelissier and his staff went up to the French
Observatory on the right. The French trenches
were crowded with men as close as they could
pack, and we could see our men through the
breaks in the clouds of dust, which were most
irritating, all ready in their trenches. The can-
nonade languished purposely towards noon ; but
the Russians, catching sight of the cavalry and
troops in front, began to shell Cathcart's-hill
and the heights, and disturbed the equanimity
of some of the spectators by their shells
bursting with loud "thuds " right over their
heads. A few minutes before 12 o'clock the
French, like a swarm of bees, issued forth from
their trenches close to the doomed Malakhoff,
swarmed up its face, and were through the em-
brasures in the twitiklinis of an eye. They
crossed the seven metres of ground which sepa-
rated them from the enemy at a few bounds—
they drifted as lightly and quickly as autumn
leaves before the wind, battalion after battalion,
into the embrasures, and in a minute or two after
the head of their column issued from the ditch
the tricolour was floating over the Korniloff Bas-
tion. The musketry was very feeble at first—
indeed, our allies took the Russians quite by sur-
prise, and very few of the latter were in the
Malakhoff ; but they soon recovered them Selves,
and from 12 o'clock till past 7 in the evening
the French had to meet and defeat the repeated
attempts of the enemy to regain the work and the
Little Redan, when, weary of the fearful slaughter
of his men, who lay in thousands over the exterior
of the works, the Muscovite General, despairing
of success, withdrew his exhausted legions, and
prepared with admirable skill to evacuate the
place. Of the French attack on the left I know
nothing, but that, if intended in earnest, it was
not successful, and was followed by some loss to
our allies. As soon as the tricolour was observed
waving over the parapet of the Malakhoff through
the smoke and dust, four rockets were sent up
from Chapman's attack one after another as a sig-
nal for our assaul t on the Redan. They were
almost borne back by the -violence of the wind,
and the silvery jets of sparks they threw out on
exploding were nearly invisible against the raw
grey sky. I take it for granted that there is no
one in England who is not by this time quite well
acquainted with the exterior of the Redan, and
who does not know its shape and situation. In
my next letter I will endeavour to give an idea
of what it is like inside ; at present I have no
time to describe it, nor the appearance of Sebas-
topol, now that one can walk through its flaming
streets.

In order to give an idea of the plan of the at-
tack I send you a copy of the "Divisional After
Order," in accordance with which it was arranged,
and for the sake of comparison there is appended
to it a copy of the essence of the orders issued for
the attack of the 18th of June. It will be seen
that the differences between the two plans relate
to details, and not to principle. When the order
was received on the 7th, the general remark was,
" This looks like another 18th of June." In fact,
the attacking columns were not strong enough, the
supports were not strong enough, and were also
too far behind, and the trenches did not afford
room for a sufficient number of men. Now, it
will be observed that, where we attacked the Re-
dan with two divisions only, a portion of each
being virtually in reserve and not engaged in the
affair at all, the French made their assault on
the Malakhoff with four divisions of the second
corps o"armee, the first and fourth (Lvh.ions
forming the storming columns, and the third
and fifth being the support with reserves of 10,000
men. The French had, probably, not less than
30,000 men in the right attack on the 7th of
September. The divisional orders for the 2d di-
vision wore very much the same as those for the
light division. The covering party consisted of
100 men of the 3d Buffs, under Captain John
Lewes, who highly distinguished himself, and 100
men of the Second Battalion of the Rifle Brigade,
I believe under the command of poor Captain
Hammond. The scaling-ladder party consisted of
160 of the 3d Buffs, under Captain Maude, whose
gallantry was very conspicuous throUghout the
affair, in addition to the 160 of the 97th, under
the gallant and lamented Welsford. The part
of the force of the Second Division consisted
of 260 of the 3d Buffs, 300 of the 41st (Welsh),
200 of the 62d, and
The
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men of the 41st.
Brigade, consisting of the 47th and
Br
nd 49itgha,d we eoref
in reserve, togetherwith Warren's
were called into acti ,
the same division, of
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sn edv esr esl ;11.
Brigadier Shirley was on board ship, but as soon
as he heard of the assault he resolved to join his
brigade, and he accordingly came up to camp that
very morning. of the 19th Regi-
ment,Briaadier Shirley's
absence, and on him would
was the senior officer cijenreitnt o
doefvtoiliveedLigt.illi et
duty of leading the storming
Brigadier's intention to
Unett, ignorant of the
Division had the latter not returned. Colonel
column have
leave shipboard, had to decide with Colonel
Windham who should take precodenou-eett won.in the
attack. They tossed, and Colonel u
He had it in his power to say whether he would
go first or follow Colonel Windham. Ho l
looked
at•the shilling, turned it over, and said, "My
choice is made ; I'll be the first man into the
Redan." But fate willed it otherwise, and he -tv,:s
struck down badly wounded ere yet he reached the
abattis, although he was not leading the column.
Scarcely had the men left the fifth parallel when
the guns on the flank of the Redan opened
on them as they moved up rapidly to the
salient, in which there were of course 110
cannon, as the nature of such a work does not
permit of their being placed in that particular
position. In a few seconds Brigadier Shirley was
temporarily blinded by the dust and by earth
knocked into his eyes by a shot. He was obliged
to retire, and his place was taken by Lieut.-Col.
Bunbury, of the 23d Regiment, who was next in
rank to Col. Unett, already struck down and eP t'-
riod to the rear. liugadier can 64.aubelizeo re-
ceived a contusion on the face, and was also forced I

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men to come out, and succeeded several times in
forming a few of them, but they melted away as
fast as he laid hold of them, and either fell in their
little ranks or retired to cover to keep up their
fusillade. Many of them crowded to lower parts
of the inner parapet and kept up a smart fire on
the enemy, but nothing would induce them to come
out into the open space and charge the breastwork.
This was all going on at the proper left space of the
Redan, while nearly the same scene was being re-
peated at the salient. Every moment our men were
diminishing in numbers, while the Russians came
up in swarms from the town, and rushed down
from the Malakhoff, which had now been occupied
by the French. Thrice did Colonel Windham send
officers to Sir E. Codrington, who was iu the fifth
parallel, begging of him to send up supports in some
order of formation ; but all these three officers
were wounded as they passed from the ditch of
the Redan to the rear, and the Colonel's own aide-
de-camp, Lieutenant Swire, of the 17th, a gallant
young officer, was hit dangerously in the hip, as
he went on his perilous errand. Supports were,
indeed, sent up, but they came up in disorder
from the fire to which they were exposed on their
way, and arrived in dribblets only to increase the
'
confusion and the carnage. Finding that he could
not collect any men on the left face, Colonel
Windham passed through one of the cuts
of the inner parapet, and walked over to the
right face at the distance of thirty yards from
the Russian breastwork, to which he moved in a
parallel line, exposed to a close fire, but, wonderful
to say, without being touched. When he got
behind the inner parapet at the right face
he found the same state of things as that
which existed at the left. The men were behind
the traverses, firing away at the Russians or
blazing at them from the broken parts of the front,
and the soldiers who came down from the salient
in front only got behind these works for cover
while they loaded and fired at the enemy. The
Colonel got some riflemen and a few men of the
BSth together, but no sooner had be brought them
out than they were killed, wounded, or dispersed
by a concentrated fire. The officers, with the
' noblest devotion, aided Colonel Windham, and be-
came the special marks of the enemy's riflemen.
The narrow neck of the salient was too close to allow
of any kind of formation, and the more the men
crowded into it the more they got out of order,
and the more they suffered from the enemy's fire.
This miserable work lasted for an hour. The
Russians were now in dense masses behind the
breastwork, and Colonel Windham walked back
again across the open space to the left to make one
more attempt to retrieve the day. The men on
the parapet of the salient, who were firing at the
Russians, sent their shot about him, and the lat-
ter, who were pouring volley after volley on all
points of the head of the work, likewise directed
their muskets against him, but he passed through
this cross tiro in safety, and got withiu the inner
parapet on the left, where the men were becoming
thinner and thinner. A Russian officer now stepped
over the breastwork, and tore clown a gabion with
his own hands ; it was to make room for a fielcl-piece.
Colonel Windham exclaimed to several soldiers who
were tiring over the parapet, " Well, as you are so
fond of firing, why don't you shoot that Russian ?"
They fired a volley and missed him, and soon
afterwards the field piece began to play on the head
of the salient with grape. ed. Windham saw there
was no time to be lost. He had sent three officers
for reinforcements and, above all, for men in forma-
tion, and he now resolved to go to General Ccdrinb
ton himself. Seeing Capt. Crealock, of the 90th,
near him, busy in encouraging his men, and exert-
ing himself with great courage and energy to get
them into order, he said—" I must go to the Gene-
ral for supports. Now mind, let it be known, in case
I am killed, why I went away." He crossed the pa-
rapet and ditch, and succeeded in gaining the fifth
parallel through a storm of grape and rifle bullets
in safety. Sir Edward Codrington asked him if he
thought he really could do anything with such sup-
ports as he could afford, and said he might take the
Royals, who were then in the parallel. " Let the
officers come out in front—let us advance in order,
and if the men keep their formation the Redan is
ours," was the Colonel's reply ; but he spoke too late
—for at that very moment our men were seen leap-
ing down into the ditch, or running down the pa-
rapet of the salient, arid through the embrasures
out of the work into the ditch, while the Russians
followed them with the bayonet and with heavy
musketry, and even threw stones and grapeshot at
them as they lay in the ditch. The fact was that
the Russians havingaccumulated several thousands
of men behind the breastwork, and seeing our men
all scattered up and confused behind the inner
parapet of the traverse, crossed the breast-
work, through which several field-pieces were
now playing with grape on the inner face of the
Redan, and charged our broken troops with the
bayonet, at the same time that the rear ranks
getting on the breastwork, poured a heavy hail of
bullets on them over the heads of the advancing
column. The struae that took place was short,
desperate, and bloody. Our soldiers, taken at every
disadvantage, met the enemy with the bayonet too,
and isolated combats took place in which the brave
fellows who stood their ground had to defend them-
selves against three or four adversaries at once. In

the source of deep grief and mortification to us,
which all the glorious successes of our allies could
not wholly alleviate. Even thoSe who thought any
attack on the Bedan useless and unwise, inasmuch
as the possession of the Malakhoff would, in
their opinion, render the Redan untenable, could
not but regret bitterly that, as we had given the
assault, we had not achieved a decisive triumph,
and that so much blood had been, if not inglo-
riously, at least fruitlessly, poured forth.
The French, indeed, have been generous enough
to say that our troops behaved with great bravery,
and that they wondered how we kept the Redan so
long under such a tremendous fire, but British
soldiers are rather accustomed to the nil admirari
under such circumstances, and praise like that
gives pain as well as pleasure. Many soldiers, of
the opinion to which I have alluded, think that we
should at once have renewed the attempt once
made, and it is but small consolation to them to
know that General Simpson intended to attack. the
Redan the following morning, inasmuch as the
Russians anticipated our probable success, and by
retreat deprived us of the chance of retrieving our
reputation, and at the same time acknowledged,
by their desperate withdrawal, the completeness of
the success achieved by our allies.
Our attack lasted about an hour and three-
quarters, as well as I cold make out, and in that
time we lost more men than at Inkerman, where
the fighting lasted for seven hours. At 1.48 p.m.,
which was about the time we retired, there was an
explosion either of a tumbril or of a fougasse
between the Mamelon and the Malakhoff, to the
right, which seemed to blow up several French-
men, and soon afterwards the artillery of the Im-
perial Guard swept across from the rear towards
the Little Redan, and gave us an indication that
our allies had gained a position from which they
could operate against the enemy with their field
pieces. From the opening of the attack the French
batteries over Careening Bay had not ceased to
thunder against the Russia❑ fleet, which lay si-
lently at anchor below, and there was a lively
cannonade between them and the Inkerman bat-
teries till the evening, which was interrupted now
and then by the intervention of the Redoubt Vic-
toria, the English Redoubt, and the late Seling-
hinsk and Volliyuia redoubts, which engaged the
Russian batteries over the last end of the harbour.
At 1 o'clock wounded men began to crawl up from
the batteries to the camp ; they could tell us little
or nothing. " Were we in the Redan ?" " Oh,
yes ; but a lot of them was killed, and the Rus-
sians were mighty strong." Some were cheery,
others desponding ; all seemed proud of their
wounds. Half-an-hour more, and the number of
wounded increased ; they came up by twos and
threes, and—what I had observed before as a bad
sign—the number of stragglers accompanying them
under the pretence of rendering assistance be-
came greater also. Then the ambulances and the
cacolets (or mule litters) came in sight along the
Woronzoff-road filled with wounded. Every ten
minutes added to their numbers, and we could
see that every effort was made to hurry them
down to the front as soon as they were ready for
a fresh load. The litter-hearers now added to
the length of the melancholy train. We heard
that the temporary hospitals in front were
full, and that the surgeons were beginning
to get anxious about accommodation for the
wounded. It may here be observed that on
the occasion of the 18th of Juue some of these
temporary hospitals, which are intended to aff'rd
immediate aid in cases requiring operations on the
spot, were under fire, and a shell burst in the very
tent in which Dr. Paynter and his assistants were
operating, the ground around it being continually
torn up by round shot. On this occasion more care
was taken in determiniug the sites of the tents.
Another bad sign was that the enemy never ceased
throwing up shell to the front, many of which burst
high in the air over our heads, while the pieces flew
with a most unpleasant whir around us. These
shells were intended for our reserves ; and althoug
tie fuses did not burn long enough for such a
range, and they all burst at a considerable eleva-
tion, they caused some little injury and annoyance
to the troops in the rear, arid hit some of our men.
The rapidly-increasing numbers of wounded men,
some of whom had left their arms behind them,
gave rise to suspicions of the truth ;- but their an-
swers to many eager questioners were not very de-
cisive or intelligible, and some of them did not
even know what they had been attacking. One
poor young fellow who was marching stiffly up with
a broken arm and a ball through his shoulder,
carried off his firelock with him, but he made the
naive confession that he had "never fired it off, for
he could not." The piece turned out to be in ex-
cellent order. It struck one that such men as
these, hoviever brave, were scarcely a fit match for
the well drilled soldiers of Russia ; and yet we
were trusting the honour, reputation, and glory of
Great Britain to undisciplined lads from the plough
or the lanes of our towns and villages ! As one
example of the sort of recruits we have received

this melee the officers, armed only with their
swords, had little chance ; nor had those who car-
ried pistols much opportunity of using them in such
a rapid contest. They fell like heroes, and many
a gallant soldier with them. The bodies of Eng-
lish and Russians inside the Redan, locked in an
embrace which death could not relax, but had
rather cemented all the closer, lay next day inside
the Redan as evidences of the terrible animosity of
the struggle. But the solid weight of the advanc-
ing mass, urged on, and fed each moment from the
rear by company after company and battalion after
battalion, prevailed at last against the isolated and
disjointed band, who had abandoned the protec-
tion of unanimity of courage and had lost the ad-
vantages of discipline and obedience. As though
some giant rock had advanced into the sea and
forced back the waters that buffeted it, so did the
Russian columns press down against the spray of
soldiery which fretted their edge with fire and steel
and contended in vain against their weight. The
struggling band was forced back by the enemy, who
moved on crushingfriend and foe beneath their solid
tramp, and, bleeding, panting, and exhausted, our
men lay in heaps in the ditch beneath the parapet,
sheltered themselves behind stones and iii bomb-cra-
ters in the slope of the work, or tried to pass back to
our advanced parallel and sap, and had to run the
gauntlet of a tremendous fire. Many of them lost
their lives, or were seriously wounded in this I
attempt. The scene in the ditch was appalling,
although some of the officers have assured me that
they and the men were laughing at the precipitation
with which many brave and gallant fellows did not
hesitate from plunging headlong upon the mass of
bayonets, muskets, and sprawling soldiers—the lad-
ders were all knocked down or broken, so that it
was difficult for the men to get up at the other
side, and the dead, the dying, the wounded, and
the sound were all lying in heaps together. The
Russians came out of the embrasures, plied them
stones, grape-shot, and the bayonet, but were soon
forced, retire by the fire of our batteries and rifle-
men, and under cover of this fire many of our men
escaped to the approaches. In some instances the
enemy persisted in remaining outside in order to
plunder the bodies of those who were lying on the
slope of the parapet, and paid the penalty of their
rashness in being stretched beside their foes • but
others came forth on a holier errand, and actually
brought water to our wounded. If this last act bo
true, it is but right to discredit the story that the
Russians placed our wounded over the magazine in
the rear of the Redan, near the Barrack Battery,
ere they fired it—the only foundation for which, as
far as I can discover, is that many of the bodies of
our men found in the Redan were dreadfully
scorched and burnt ; but there were many Russians
lying there in a similar state. General Pelissier
observed the failure of our attack from the rear of
the Malakhoff, and sent over to General Simpson to
ask if he intended to attack again. The English
Commandetain-Chief is reported to have replied that
he did not then feel in a condition to do so. All this
time the Guards and Highlanders, the Third and
Fourth Divisions, and most of the reserves were un-
touched. They could, indeed, have furnished mate-
rials for another assault, but the subsequent move-
ments of the Russians render it doubtful whether
the glory of carrying the Redan, and of redeeming
Malakhoff
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tween masses of Russians, now released from the
Redan, or drawn from the town, and the French,
furiously.
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scene, but the rattle of musketry was incessant,
and betokened the severe nature of the stregele
below. Through the breaks in the smoke there
could be seen now and then a tricolour, surmounted
by an eagle, fluttering bravely over the inner pa-
rapet of the Malalihoff. The storm of battle rolled
fiercely round it, and beat against it ; but it was
sustained by strong arms and stout hearts, and all
the assaults of the enemy were directed in vain
against it. We could see, too, our noble allies
swarming over into the Malakhoff from their splen-
did approaches to it from the Mamelon , or rushing
with swift steps towards the right, whore the Rus-
sians, continually reinforced, sought in vain to
beat back their foes and to regain the key of their
pasition. The struggle was full of interest teus
all, but its issue was never doubted.' It would be
untrue to say that
theresult of our assault was not

here recently I may mention that there was a con-
siderable number of men in draughts which
came out last week to regiments in the Fourth
Division who had only been enlisted a few days,
and who had never fired a rifle in their
lives ! It must not be imagined that such raw-
ness can be corrected and turned into military
efficiency out here, for the fact is that this siege
has beon about the worst possible school for de-
veloping the courage and manly self-reliance of a
soldier ; neither does it teach him the value of dis-
cipline and of united action. When he goes into
the trenches he learns to dodge behind gabions and
to take pot shots from behind stones and parapets,
and at the same time he has no opportunity of
testing the value of his comrades, or of proving him-
self against the enemy on the open field. The
natural result follows. Nor was it ominous of good
that there have been two courts of inquiry recently
on the conduct of two most distinguished regiments
—one, indeed, belonged to the highest rank of our
infantry, and the other a well-tried and gallant re-
giment, which was engaged in this very attack, in
consequence of the misconduct of their young sol-
diers during night affairs in trenches. The old
soldiers behaved admirably, and stood by their
officers to the last ; nor was there any lack of
courage among the young lads just joined, but they
were wanting in discipline and in confidence of
their officers. No one can doubt that the assault
by the Third and Fourth Divisions would have
been quite successful had it been necessary. Gene-
ral Simpson remained in the Green-hill Battery till
6 o'clock, at which hour General Pelissier sent
to inform him that the Malakhoff was quite safe,
and asked him what the English intended to do
with respect to the Redan. General Simpson had
by this time arrived at the determination of attack-
ing it the following morning at 5 o'clock with the
Third and Fourth Divisions. The difficulty of get-
ting accurate information of the progress of an
action cannot be better exemplified than by this
fact, that at 3 o'clock a General of Division did not
know whether we had taken the Redan or not.
Towards dusk the Guards who had been placed in
reserye behind our Right Attack were marched off
to their camp, and a portion of the Highlanders
were likewise taken off the ground. The Guards
only arrived from the trenches this morning, but,
to their great credit be it said, they turned again
withcut a murmur after a rest of a couple of hours
for breakfast, although they had been "on" for 48
hours previously. Tile Third Division and a por-
tion of the Highlanders were sent down to do the
trench duties in the evening and night.
From the following statement of the loss in the
Light Division it will be seen that this gallant body,
which behaved so well at the Alma, and main-
tained its reputation at Inkerman, suffered as
severely as it did in gaining the former great vic-
tory, and au examination of the return, which is
tolerably correct, and is certainly rather under the
mark-, will, I fear, show that the winter, the
trenches, and careless recruiting have done their
work, and that the officers furnished a noble ex-
ample of devotion and gallantry,:which their men
did not imitate. In the Light Division there ars
73 officers and 964 men wounded—total, 1,037.
The loss of this division was 1,001 in killed and
wounded at the Alma.

The number of officers killed amounts to 13 ; of
men killed to 94—total, 107. The regiments of
the division which furnished storming columns
were the 90th (or Perthshire Volunteers) and the
97th (or Earl of Ulster's). In the 90th Captain
Preston and Lieutenant Swift and Lieutenant Will-
mer were killed. Lieutenant Swift got the fur-
thest of all those who entered the Redan, and his
dead body was discovered far in advance. Captain
Grove, Captain Tinling, Captain Wade, and Lieu-
tenant Vaughan, were all. severely ; Captain Perrin
slightly; Lieutenant Rattray, Lieutenant Rous,
Lieutenant Raitt, and Lieutenants Graham and
Haydock, slightly wounded; 125 men were wound-
ed ; killed not known. In the 97th Lieut.-Cor.
the lion. H. R, Handcock, Major Welsford, and
Lieut. Douglas M‘Gregor were killed, 114 men
wounded, and 37 were killed. The colonel was
shot through the head, and was carried to his tent,
but the ball lodged in the brain he never was
was sensible, and expired that night. His widow
was watching the progress of the struggle from the
Picket-house, and all her worst fears Were soon
realised, for her husband's body was brought by
the very place where she stood. Lieut. M‘Gregor,
the son of the Inspector-General of Irish Consta-
bulary, was adjutant of the regiment, and was as
remarkable for his unostentatious piety and Christian
virtues as for his bravery and conduct in the field
Capt. Lumley is dangerously, Capt. Si bthorp, Capt.
Woods, Lieut. Goodenough, Ensigns Hill and Fitz-
g,erald and Browne are slightly wounded. The rest of
the division was engagad in supporting the storming
columns. In the rth 13.0yal Fusiliers Lieutenant

Wright and Lieutenant Colt were killed ; Major
Turner, Captain Heyland, Catpain Hibhert, Lieu-
tenant Sickle, and Lieutenant Jones (Alma), were
wounded. 67 men were wounded and 11 killed.
In the 23d (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Lieutenant
Somerville and Lieutenant Gubb are dead ; the
first was killed ; the latter died of his wounds the
following morning. Lieutenant-Colonel Lysons is
slightly wounded, and the following officers are
more or less injured by shot, shell, or bayonet :
Captain Vane, Lieutenant Poole, Lieutenant Mil-
lett, Lieutenant Tupper, Ensign O'Connor, and
Ensigns Redcliffe, Parrott, and Beek ; 130 men
wounded ; killed not known. In the 33d Lieut.
Donovan, a most promising and dashing officer,
lost his life while looking over the parapet at
the fight. He accompanied the regiment as
an amateur, iu company with his brother, all
through Bulgaria, and went into action with them
at the Alma as a volunteer, where he so much dis-
tinguished himself that the Colonel recommended
him for a commission which he received. Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Gough, who was shot through the
body at the Alma, was severely wounded ; Captain
Ellis and Lieutenants Willis and Trant were
slightly, and the Adjutant, Tonsell, severely
wounded ; 45 men wounded, killed not known.
In the 34th, which was in the parallel behind the
columns, Lieutenants Harris and Ls.urie are
severely wounded, and 62 men are wounded. In
the 19th nearly every officer was touched more or
less, but none were killed ; 148 men were wounded,
and 27 were killed. The officers wounded are—
Col. Unett, severely ; Major Warden, slightly ;
Captain Cliippendall, ditto ; Lieutenants Godfrey,
Martin, Doran, and Massey, dangerously ; Moles-
worth, severely ; Bailey, sightly ; Ensign Martin,
slightly ; and Ensign Young, dangerously. In the
77th 42 men were wounded ; killed not known ;
Capt. Parker killed. Wounded, Capt. Butts,
slightly ; Lieutenants Knowles, Leggatt, and
Watson, ditto. In the 88th Regiment 105 men
were wounded ; killed about 25. Capt. Grogan
was killed ; Lieut.-Colonel Maxwell, C. 8., was
was wounded twice in the thigh and once in the
arm severely, but not dangerously. Captains
Mauleverer and Beresforcl ; Lieutenants Lambert,
Hopton, Scott, and Waterer ; and Ensign Walker,
are wounded severely. In the Rifle Brigade Capt.
Hammond, who was only three days out from Eng-
land, and Lieut. Ryder, were killed ; and Lieut.
Pellew(slightly), Lieut. Eyre severely, Major Wood-
ford (slightly), Capt. Eccles and Lieut. Riley se-
verely. There were no less than 125 men wounded
and 13 killed. It will be sees by this that no less
than 964 men were wounded in the Light Division,
and it is most creditable to the medical officer in
charge, Dr. Alexander, and to his surgeons, that all
these men svere comfortably is bed and had their
wounds dressed and their wants attended to by 8
o'clock the same evening. The loss of officers in
Windham's Brigade, and in the portion of Warren's
Brigade which moved to his support is equally
severe. The loss the two brigades if this divi-
sion is not less than 'l9O men. The whole loss can-
not be estimated at less than 2,200 or 2,300 men.
SIINDLY, SEPT. 9.

At 8 o'clock last night the Russians began quietly
to withdraw from the town, iti the principal houses
of which they had previously stored up combusti-
bles in order to render Sebastopol a second Moscow.
With great art the general kept up a fire of musketry
from his advanced p)sts, as though Lie intended to
renew the attempts to regain the Midakhoff. Ere
3 o'clock this morning the fleet had been scuttled
and sunk, with the exc.- ption of the steamers.
About 12.30 the men of the ai division on duty in
the trenches observed a preternatural silence in the
Redan, and some volunteers crept into it. No-
thing could they hear but the heavy breathing and
groans of the wounded at d the dying, who, with
the dead, were the sole occupants of the place. As
the Redau was known to be mined, the men were
withdrawn, and soon afterwards the Russian tac-
tics began to develops themselves. About 2 o'clock
flames were observed to break out in different
parts of the town. They spread gradually all over
the principal buildings. At 4 o'clock a stupendous
explosion behind the Redan shook the whole camp;
it was followed by four other explosions equally
startling. The city was enveloped in fire and smoke,
and torn asunder with the tremendous shocks of
these volcanoes. At 4.45 the Flagstaff and Garden
Batteries blew up. At 5.30 two of the southern
forts went up into the air, and the effect of these
explosions was immensely increased by the rash of a
great number of live shell into the air, which ex-
ploded in all directions. All this time a steady
current of infantry was passing in unbroken masses
to the north side over the bridge, and at 6.45 the
last battalions passed over, and the hill sides op
posits were alive with their masses. Several small
explosions took place inside the town at 7.10.
Columns of black smoke began to rise from the
neighbourhood of Fort Paul at 7.12. At 7.15 the
' connexion of the floating-bridge with the south
side was severed. At 7.16 flames began to ascend
from Fort Nicholas. At 8.7 the bridge was floated
off in portions to the north side. At 9 o'clock
several violent explosions took place in the works
on our left, opposite the French. The town was
by this time in a mass of flames, and the pillar of
black, grey, and velvety fat smoke from it seemed
to support the very heavens. The French kept up
firing guns on the left, probably to keep out strag-
glers, but ere the Russians left the place the Zou-
ayes and sailors were in it, and engaged busily in
plundering. Not a shot was fired to the front and
centre. The Vladimir and Grossomonetz were
very busy towing boats and stores across. Cavalry
and sentries were sent up to prevent any one going
into the town, but without much success. I visited
a good portion of the place. Explosions occurred
all through the day. The plunder was enormous.
The following After-Order of the day has been
issued :

voredorarommeorromi.M.........
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guns, and in the face of a most power'n' - A
cross& -,
paraded them in our sight as they
and carried of all his most useful stores a nt
munitions of war. He left us few trophies! 'll
many bitter memories. He sank his ships and "i' i'e,,
up his forts without molestation, save some Ps"
efforts to break down tha bridge by cannon al :o
or to shell the troops as they marched over. ,
His steamers towed his boats across at their I:e.;
sure, and when every man was across, and not Li;•
the then,
the Russians began to dislocate and float ol
portions of their bridue and to pull it over in
the north side.
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The town is still burning and in mills.
PT. 10'
It le in
s
possession of the French. The following order he
been issued on the subject—" five officers and se"'
ral men injured by explosions to-day.
TUESDAY MORNING, I. A. M.
For the last hour an exceedingly violent storel
has been raging over the camp. The wind is fr di
the southward and eastward, and blows with ari
writ if,
fury as to make the hut in which I am
rock to and fro, and to fill it with fine dust, wilt
flies in through every crevice. The Russians a°
very busy with their signals over the Tcber,lll3;
The fires in Sebastopol, fanned by the win",
spreading- fast, and the glare of the burnings cryt,i''
illuminates the whole arch of the sky toward
north-west.
2 o'CLocrc .01.- ii
The storm has increased in strength, and raines
beginning to fall heavily. The most dazzling tiallop
of lightning shoot over the plateau and light 0
short and startling as to resemble,
the camp for an instant, the peals of thunder are i.
while fai. exceed'
ing in noise, the report of cannon. The. in bs.
somewhat lescene 1 the intensity of the fire at Se .3. g
topol, but its flames and those of the Theelig
is, indeed, a great battle raging
seem at times to contend for the mastery. a
its thunder mocks to scorn our heaviest ealln°lltia
This supply of water will be very seasonable t°, a
camp, where that article of consumption has 'el
for a long time scanty and dirty.
4.15 •4-'Tor
In the whole course of my life I never bear oof
saw anything like the deluge of rain which is ilo a
It beats :is
falling over this portion of the camp.
the roof with a noise like that of a cataract ; 1
~ d
a veritable water spout. The wind is shifting an
in the skies,aa.dre.
fainter, and the gusts Iva violent.
changing all round the compass. The /ightningtiir
again it WV,
a minute there is a profound calm ;
a hurricane. 31-
4.20 -6' a. i 0
The waterspout has passed away. Had it lumen
minutes longer it threatened to drown, the ca- •
.4% ~a
There is a tornado passinc, over the call 11) fal'ss
more—hail, storm, and rain'. The ground is a'.
of mud. „4 Will
wished to spend a quiet snug day in The '
disappointment of the many per
, ig
SODSletialeS -
diminished by the knowledge that there is 11,' Pod
tive order against going into the town, au" ri a
General Pelissier pas declared his sentries !ei.,s
shoot any persons who may be found in the, striei I a
in disobedience of that injunction. passes neiii 4
issued from the Adjutant-General's depart til e
without which all persons will be stopne" st
b,e a
entrances to the works. The rain and bail que { o
Sebastarclsi,
the fire which the wind had previously fanned im t
exceeding fierceness, so that there was
for the fl Lines to devour. Sebastopol is llaw $11,21;
with h s'
of white ruins, streaked and barred
smoke. delayer 1
For some reason unknown the mail i 9 0. ;
to-day. Although the wind is high it is not str_o
enough to prevent a goodr6Stea,mer going tOtcube s
All sorts of contradictory telegraphic dell' •
have been going from the_ Admiral to the it . is
office at head-quarters throughout the daY: oni l•
a strange coincidence that delays occurred la sna ,e
B '-
ing off the mail-after Alma and Inkerman. `-' 8
order was that
Olt 44. a was to be lauded from 3 1,,
Argo at Kamies-la-atdi serit to the Argus, iltrn 0
laklava, or vice versa as to the ships, for the 11--
little
al
.4
are rather puzzling. .

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
(From the Correspondent of the Daily Nettel.)
11 ,
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, SEPT' ".„ isi
Tice Union Jack and the Tricolour are at last wa'_ 01
over Sebastopol. Long before the fallowing detsill bell
the great achievement by which this glorious result
_,,i,
been accomplished can reach you, the electric telegr
otil
will have speed the news of our triumph through go 4
England and France, bringing jay to the masses' .0,
sorrow, alas ! to many a bere'aved home ;it reu 0 ,
therefore, to us, whose slower messenger is the c
blob„eta
merely to furnish the particulars of the struggle 'W
has ended in so glorious, though costly, a success. oil
When my last letter was being despatched tie a '
elbro
volleys of the bombardment were booming on tb 0 be
and the brave battalions by whom the attack was t te et.
made were parading a few hundred yards from 123: f JO:
The Light and Second Divisions being those selec t 7300
our own share of the operation, the regiments of teiol
two most distinguished sections of our armY r P oohed
orders on Friday night to have two days' rations cilia.
and served out at six o'clock on the following in' 11,,/ 100
At seven a.m. the first storming party, coosistieg
ißfore,
men of the 97th Regiment, under Major W. 3 aal.,
and first covering party, 100 men of 2,1 battalioi s
h''ortii
Brigade, under Captain Fyers—paraded, and g .0 the
afterwards marched down to the trenches ; wb` n rule
former took up their position in the new boYe"•. the
ning out of the centre of the fifth parallel, an
„over
latter in extended order on their left, ready to
v_.
joh.
their advance, and keep down the fire from the l:ocif
pet of the Redan. Half-an-hour later, the second
der
of stormers, composed of 200 of the 97th rove,
Col. Hancock, and 300 of the 90th under rapt. " 0 the
followed, and formed immediately behind the first, I ors
parallel itself. After a similar interval these again-
,f the
f llowed by working parties of 100 men from each c
er 0,
two Divisions engaged, succeeded half-an-hour lo ti Zeal"
supports of 750 men each from the 19th and 88th I ;07, ;
meets, with part of a brieado of the Second De Id I for
these were stationed in the fourth parallel, re 0 ode
advancing into the fifth as soon as the assault so's..
dads
Lastly came the reserves, consisting of the first bet
with
of the Light Division, who, as the sequel will showts
suit,
their usu d luck, came in for a share of the actual as
i: the
This, I think, is a tolerably accurate statemenit •o°l the
relative division of the duties of the attack, and
strength of the parties employed.
arranged.Olt
As on the 18th et June it was again e,.4,,i'h
the English should assault the R. dam and the P:0 —.,
the Malakhoff. The experience of that disastrou , srhe
siren, however, taught the necessity of permittinn
.nlee
latter redoubt to be first captured before our °yids the
attempted the former ; inasmuch as tho guns oveo
Round Tower effectually commanded the oPelit
cross.
over which a force attacking the
To be sure there was reason togedan 12tLathat the
believesi
en
:ea ;
Malakhoff had at length been effectnallya
ale
oicco.,
but a similar notion was entertained e
orror des rlf
sloe of the last, assault, and its
of the gp'llak.
proved. Every embrasure but one 1 ~,e dayliighg
of the 7th ; but this
boff bad been blocked up as ea
eerrLtee that the
guns had not, as before, been drawnn_pening for tb.eneci
ready in a minute's time to clear v
was no g_n'in tinder vever,
h 18th Of June. Ac-
canister, as on the morning 0 .
selves and receive all attackfiotg
ht attack continue d to
cordingly the guns of our own rig
few teiliutei
r till a
play vigorously on the Round To we
ding that RA own
before noon on Swurday, notwithstass _
efere_an
.occa.
fire bad all but entirely ceased the b
dallythe reply it gave
sional shot from a single gun being a On the giv
to the onslaught of the besieging artillerhye. which
ht
with grape an
our guns direct
lakhoff, therefore, even more than ondit_
was to be stormed by our own men,
feetd g
furnace of el-
their fire, rendering the work a per
pioding shells, and to the sustained
of this practice is mainly to be attributedeetimrnearbe
the attack which followed. In the
m intoa their la'
30,000 French had been moved
downd
other coveting
vanced trenches before the Marnelon and other
spots around it, under the command of Gese
was
goer
Our own force, I am forgetting to Mention.,
v i g our
theand : r_e_ceissai °:f
General Markham as second in command ; ut....0n,
the Twee '7 -
Simpson himself being somewhere near e ~, the ;ea
the chief direction of Sir William Corigton,,e:eritiab
Gun Battery, but without any direct sbar ,"
nagement of the operations.
i the French
ceased, and the party of Zuuaves, who le-.
advanced
At twelve o'clock exactly the fire of
attack, dashed over the parapet of theldr au
the inter'
sap, and in less than a minute had crosse 0
parapet
vexing forty yards, and were scrambling up th P
e solitary
of the Round Tower. Contrary to aL hope, s
eject"
gun on the proper right of tbe work was the only. piece
that received the assaulters vvith a discharge, and there
was no time to reload it before our allies wereoul rof
the redoubt ; the mischief inflicted by its one
our
!woe
grape was but small. Swat tri after swarm of
0,0 ~
the bxtteries
crowded up the steep embaekinent, till the wthheln V off.c
pet was literally covered with them, and
the ravines round Sebastopol before. I can spores Re
- attoo-
menced such a fire of musketry as never echd tharorengiths
unbroken continuity to nothing but the rattlieg
..,,,,,00
of a thousand tenor drums. I have witne!sedli7ru_"4,
men engaged in a general action ; but the,infa t Y_01:0,
delivered on tile occasion was bat as child s plaY u the
pAred a itb the c.-a Bless roll that poured in upon _q..
As usual, n° ol
Malekh tr duriee SaturOny'B attack. , _Lic,, on
cum temial or con:elute eerrative of the opes
vi„
be given, from the habitual iticommunicativemes,
oj:20
our allies observe in all their proceedings
—mai
; but 1r Ai