The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-27 00:00:00

THE ROAN.

The Great Redan was next vi,ited. Such a scene
of wreck and ruin the houses behind it a mass
of broken stones—a clock turret, with a shot right
through the clock—a pagoda in ruins—another clock
tower with all the clock destroyed save the dial, with
the words " Barwise, London," thereon—cook-houses,
where human blood was running among the utensils ;
in one place had lodged in the boiler and blown it and
its contents, and probably its attendants, to pieces.
Everywhere wreck and destruction. This evidently
was a beau quaptier once. The oldest inhabitant could
not recognise it now. Climbing up to the Redan, which
was fearfully cumbered with the dead, we witnessed the
scene of the desperate attack and defence, which cost
both sides so much blood. The ditch outside made one
sick—it was piled up with English dead, some of them
scorced and blackened by the explosion, and others lace-
rated beyond recognition. The quantity of broken
gabions and gun carriages here was extraordinary ; the
ground was covered with them. The bomb-proofs were
the same as in the Malakhoff, and in one of them a music
book was found, with a woman's name in it, and a
canary bird and vase of flowers were outside the en- '
trance.

Ex uno disce omits. The Light Division was de-
prived of its Brigadier and of Colonels Unett and Ly-
sons, the next senior officers, early in the day, and was
left to the command of Col -nel Bunbury.
The 41st, who followed the Light Division storming
party, whose position in advance was determined, as I
have already stated, by Colonel Windham and Colonel
Unett "tossing up for choice," got into the Redan
nearly as soon as the 90th and 97th, who formed the
leading column of attack on the salient, and the parties
of each division were soon inextricably mixed. I do
not know the name of the first soldiers of the 90th and
97th who got in, but several soldiers of these regiments
lay dead and wounded in advance near the Russian breast-
work on the morning of the 9th. The men of the 41st
who rushed into the Redan with Col. Windham are really
named Hartnady, Kennedy, and Pat Mahoney; the last,
a fine tall Grenadier, fell dead in the embrasure by Cu!.
Windham's side,shot through the heartas he was shouting
"Come on, boys, come on!" His blood spouted over those
near him, but the men rushed on till they became c in-
fused among the traverses, and then the scene took place
which I have tried to describe in my former letter. The
salient, however favourable to the assailants in one sense,
was extremely disadvantageous to them in another, in-
somuch as it prevented them getting into auy kind of
formation. It was of course the apex of the triangle,
and was very narrow, while the enemy firing from the
base poured a concentrated fire upon the point, and
felled every man who showed boldly from behind the
traverses, while they swept with a rapid file fire the top
of the parapet on which our soldiers were crowded. At
the first rush, had Colonel Windham been able to get a
handful of men together to charge at the breastwork, the
few Rusians there must have been routed, and by the
tune their reinforcements came up our men would have
been able to reverse the face of the breastwork, and to
close the Redan to their assailants. But seconds of time
generate great events in war. Our delay gave the enemy
time both to recover from their panic when they were
driven from the salient, and to send up strong bodies of
men from their bomb-proofs and the cover at the back
of the Redan, and by degrees this accumulating mass ad-
vancing from the angles of the breastwork moved up
along the traverses parallel with the parapets of the Re-
dan, and drove our men into the salient, where, fed by
feeble dribblets and incapable of formation, they were
shot down in spite of the devotion and courage of their
leader and the example of their officers. The salient was
held by our men for one hour and 56 minutes ! While
Gen. Codrington, who seems to have become confused by
the failure of the attack, arid to have lost for a thine the cool- '
ness which has hitherto characterised him, was hesitating
about sending up more men, or was unable to send them
up in any formation, so as to form a nucleus of resist-
ance and attack, the Redan was lost, and our men,
pressed by the bayonet, by heavy fusillades, and by
some field guns, which the enemy had now brought up,
were forced over the parapet into the ditch. Colonel
Elnan, one of the very best officers in this ariny,—a
man of singular calmness and bravery, who was beloved
by his regiment, his officers and men, and whose loss is
lamented by all who knew him, was shot through the
lungs as be was getting his men into order. His sword
arm was uplifted over his head at the time, and it was
thought his lungs were uninjured. The surgeon, when
he was carried back, told him so, but he knew too well
such hopes were vain. "I feel lam bleeding inter-
nally," he said, with a sad smile. He died that night.
Two captains of the same regiment fell beside him—
Corry and Lockhart. Captain Rowlands, who very
much distinguished himself, had the most extraordinary
escapes, and was only slightly wounded, though hit in
two places. Hamilton, Maude, and Kingscote are se-
verely wounded. Major Pratt is slightly wounded ; 4
sergeants and 30 privates were killed ; 1 corporal and
12 privates were missing; about CO others are severely
wounded, and 49 are sightly wounded—making a total
loss of 184. The 49th, who were in reserve, lost 1 offi-
cer killed, 2 wounded, 2 privates killed, and 23 wounded.
For the last 30 minutes of this contest the English,
having exhausted their ammunition, threw stones at
their opponents, but the Russians retaliated with ter-
rible effect by " hand-grape " and small cannon-shot,
which they hurled at our' men. Captain Rowlands was
knocked down and stunned by one of these missilee,
which hit him right on the eye. As soon as he reco-
vered and got up, he was struck by another grape-shut
in the very same place, and knocked down again.
The 30th Regiment was formed in the fourth parallel,
left in front, on the right of the 55t11, and when the
storming party m eyed out of the fifth parallel the sup-
ports OCCUR ed it, and were immediately ordered to ad.
vance on the salient angle of the Redaa by three compa-
nies at a time from the left. The distance from the
place in which they were posted up to the salient con-
siderably exceeded 200 yards, and as the men had to cut
across as quickly as they could in order to escape the
raking fire of grape, and to support the regiments in
front, they were breathless when they arrived at the
ditch. When they arrived, all blown by this double,
they found only two scaling ladders et the scarp and
two more at the other side to climb up to the parapet.
They got over, however, and a'cended the face of the
Redan. By the time the supports got up the Russians
were pushing up their reserves in great force, and had
already got some field pieces up to the breastwork, and
the regiment falling into the train of all around them,
instead of advancing, began to fire from the parapet and
upper traverses till all their ammunition was exhausted,
when they commenced pelting the Russians with stones.
In this condition there were no attempts being made to
move the reserves whatever, while the Russians accumu-
lated mass after mass upon them from the open ground in
rear of the Redan, and deployed their columns on the
breastwork, whence they delivered a severs fire upon us.
The whole garrison of the Mala.khoff and their sup-
ports also came down on the left flank of the Redan
and added to our assailants, and indeed there was rea-
son to fight, for the possession of the Redan would
have destroyed the enemy's chance of escape. In this
gallant regiment there were 16 officers, :13 sergeants,
and 384 privates ; on marching down to the trenches
one officer was killed and 10 were wounded, six ser-
geants were wounded, 41 privates were killed and 101
privates were wounded, and two officers and six privates
have since died of their wounds.
The 55th was the support along with the 30th, and
was stationed in the fourth parallel till the assaulting
columns had cleared out of the fifth parall&, which it
then occupied, and left soon afterwards to mingle in the
melds at the salient of the Redan. Poor Lieutenant-
Col. Cuddy, who assumed the command when Lieut.-
Col. Cure was wounded in the right arm, was killed as
he led his men up the open to the face of the Redan ;
and of the remaining 10 officers who went out with the
regiment Captain Morgan, acting as Aide-de-Camp to the
Brigadier, had his arm broken. Captain Hume was
blown up by a shell, but was not severely wounded.
Lieutenant J. R. Hume, his brother, was badly but not
dangerously wounded. Lieutenant Johnson was
wounded, and was also bayoneted by a Russian, who
threw his firelock at him. The remaining officers, Capt.
\Verge (Brigade-Major), Captain Rocksby, Lieutenants
Elton, Harkness, and Burke (Adjutant), were not
touched, nor was Acting Assistant-Surgeon Fane, who
went down with the regiment to the sth parallel. The
regiment went out less than 400 strong, and suffered a
loss of 140 officers and men killed and wounded.
The gallant 62d went into action 245 of all ranks.
They were formed into two companies, with four officers
to each, and the Colonel, Major, Adjutant, and Acting
Assistant-Surgeon O'Callaghan, and formed part of the
storming party. Colonel Tyler was hit in the hand
crossing the open space in front of the Redan, and re-
tired. Lieutenant Bla.kieton was shot in the very act of
getting in through an embrasure of the Redan. Lieut.
Davenport was shot through the nose. On the parapet
two officers were killed or died of their wounds, and
four officers were wounded out of a total of 11 ; three
sergeants were killed and four wounded out of 16, one
drummer was killed out of eight, and 14 rank and file
were killed and 75 were wounded out of 210. Such
was this heavy day. To show how it fell on our allies
I may give the following fact. The 15th Regiment,
Colonel Garrain, went into action 900 strong against
the Little Redan, and came out 310. The two Chefs
de Batalion were killed, 11 officers were killed, and 19
officers were wounded. It was observed that an im-

mense namber of the Russian dead in the front were
officers.

The Vladimir behaved admirably on Sunday. She
to,,k up a position within range of the French battery
at Inkerrnan. She was not safe anywhere, and stem
on let the shot pass over her till I was tired of seeing
them miss her.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 13.
As the Russian steamers were still intact, notwith-
standing the efforts of the French battery at the head
of the roads near Inkerrnan to touch them up, it was
resolved to construct a battery on the ruins of Fort
Paul, within 700 yards of the northern shore, under
which they had taken refuge. The steamers lay in three
irregular lines to the eastward of Fort Catherine, where
the deep creeks in the high cliffs gave them some sort of
shelter against the fire of the French. There they were
agents of much mischief and injury to the allies from
the battle of Inkerman down to this time. There was
the famous Vladimir, with her two large funnels and
elegant clipper hull ; the Elbceuf, the steamer which
made the celebrated dash into the Black Sea through
all our fleet last year, and burnt some Turkish vessels
near Heraclea, just as the Vladimir was seen in Odessa
harbour in the month of July, 1854 ; there was the
Gromonossetz, which had caused such annoyance from
the. Dockyard Creek ; and there were five others with
hard, and to me unknown names, as calmly floating on
the water as though no eager eyes were watching from