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CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JuNE
It is but natural that the attack of the allies on ther
principal points of the Russian defences should now be
scrutinised in all its details, and, as it has failed, that the
plan of that attack should be severely criticised and un-
sparingly censured. It is certainly true that, in -some re-
spects, these details were imperfect. As an example of
this imperfection, it is stated that the supports were too
distant from the attacking parties ; that proper care was
not taken to prevent the men becoming confused and losing
their way in the labyrinth of works before the Redan ;
hat no steps were formed above the berm of the pai-apet,
.0 that the men could step over in order ; that thseattack-
'ng parties were too weak, and that the men were crowded
' into narrow works and trenches which could not afford
them cover, and were difficult of access and exit. It is,
moreover, affirmed that no proper instructions were given
to the artillery for their guidance in the event of success
or defeat, and that it was only ;when the Russians had
crowded over their parapets and through their embrasures,
and had been shooting down our men for some .4ime on
their retreat, that an artillery officer obtained permission
from Lord Raglan to open fire upon their lines ; that no
directions were addressed even to the ambulance corps
with respect to locality or action, and that many minor
points of some importance were also neglected'; but the
gravest charge of all is that the success of the assault was
compromised by the facility with which Lord Raglan
yielded to General Pelissier's request, and late on the even-'ing of the 17th altered the arrangements for the following
morning. As to the propriety of General Pelissier's views
in making that request there is scarcely a difference
of opinion in this army. If the Rusians were indeed
about to assault the Mamelon before dawn he would
have been prepared for them with overwhelming num-
bers, could have decimated than as they retreate with
his artillery, and cod have immediately attacked a
potitinn held 'by a beaten'. and -dispirited- enemy. If
they were not prepared to attack the Mamelon, but were
prepared to resist us, the original plan of bombarding them
for three hours before we attacked could not have failed
to drive them from their works under cover, and to slay
great numbers of them. That plan was perfectly successful
in the attack on the Mamelon, which was easily taken
After a fierce cannonade in the open day, which drove the
enemy out of the works. Although we had silenced many
guns in the Roden' we had not silenced' all, nor had we
touched the ships' batteries ; and Prince Gortschakoff tells
es daily, and as we find truly, " The damage done to us
by day we repair at night." We never searched out the
strength of the Redan on that morning, and the Russians
might have—for all we knew and know, replaced every in-
jured gun, and have had the battery in as good order as
when we opened fire. We were certain of success. Sir
George Brown, inflated by the bloodless conquest of Kertch
and Yenikale, directed the operations as if the garrison of
Sebastopol were a body of serf-militia. A private memo-
randum was sent round the night before the attack to
officers commanding regiments, &c., to request them to
keep their men in order, and to make them observe silence
" when they got inside the Redan till the enemy were en-
tirely subdued." It does not• appear why there was no
attack on the Russian works on our left. One would cer-
tainly have thought that even a feint by the French against
the Flagstaff Batteries would have been attended with ad-
vantage. However, these are points Weyond my province,
and I shall stop here, with the assurance that I am ex-
pressing the opinions of others, and am not hazarding any
one statement of my own on a subject of such vast im-
portance to forget that memorable morning as it is hopeless
to attempt to describe what occurred.
In my former letter, writteu hastily and under the de-
pression of our ill success, I could not do more than give
a very meagre sketch of what took place, and I am not
now able to amend my defects. It will be remembered that
the plan of attack originally proposed was that the allies
were to open a cannonade for three hours on the Malakhoff
and Redan after dawn on the morning of the 18th ; that
the French were to assault the Malakhoff, and that when
they had gained possession of it we were to attack the Re-
dan. As the latter work is commanded by the former, it
would not be possible to carry or to hold it till the Mala-
khoff was taken. Soon after 12 o'clock the attacking party
moved down from camp and took ground in the trenches
under the direction of Major Halliwell, the Deputy-As-
sistant Quartermaster-General of the Division. Tho Se-
cond Division was on their left, the Fourth Division on
the left of the Second Division, and the Third Division on
the extreme left. The moveme-nt was simultaneous, and
the troops moved off together till they came into the
trenches, from which they were to issue forth to attack
the dark wall of earth, serrated with embrasures before
them.
These embrasures were only too well filled. The fire
which we opened on Sunday morning preliminary to the
assault was :narked by great energy, weight, and destruc-
tiveness. In the first relief the Quarry Battery, com-
manded, by Major Strange, threw no less than 300 8-inch
shells into the Redan, which is only 400 yards distant, and
the place must have been nearly cleared by the incessant
storm of iron splinters which flew through it. So near are
the works that fragments of our 13-inch shells fly back
from the Redan into the Quarry Battery, and on some oc-
casions our men have been injured by the splinters of their
own shells, which have radiated from the inside of the
Russian batteries. Throughout Sunday our artillery fired
12,000 rounds of the heaviest ordnance into the enemy's
lines, and on the following day we fired 1.1,945 rounds of
shot a.nd shell. The Russian fire was weak and wild. Al-
though they fired a good deal, they kept many pieces
masked, and one six-gun and one eight-gun battery on the
flanks of the Redan were silent, and were left compara-
tively unnoticed by our artillerymen. The only damage
they did by all their fire throughout the whole of Sunday
was the demolition of the wheel of a gun:carriage. Had
the three hours' cannonade and bombardment which Lord
Raglan decided on administering to the Russian batteries
before we assaulted been delivered to them, it is very pro-
bable that we should have found but a small body of
troops prepared to receive us at the parapets ' • and it must
be esteemed a very unfortunate circumstance that his lord-
ship was induced to abandon his intention in deference to
the wishes of General Pelissier. General Pelissier, in re-
questing the English General to change the original plan
of attack and to forestall the hour which was at first
agreed upon, is not stated to have assigned any specific
reason for the alteration, but it is reported that he wished
to anticipate the enemy, who were about, as he was in-
formed, to make an assault on the Mamelon. He felt, too,
that the masses of French whom he had prepared could
not be concealed from the Russians for any length of time,
and that they would soon be revealed by the noise which
always attends the movements of large bodies of men. It
would, indeed, have been impossible to conceal the fact of
the accumulation of so many battalions close to the Mala-
khoff, and their presence would have been indicated cer-
tainly as soon as dawn, and probably earlier.
The Russian column which is said to have issued from
Malakhoff just before our assault, to attack the Mamelon,
was certainly so small that it was, according to some,
merely intended as a feint to draw out the French and lead
them to the assault, for which the enemy were only too
well prepared.
As the 34th Regiment advanced, the supports, by some
means or another, got mixed together with them, and some
confusion arose in consequence. On crossing the trench
our men, instead of coming upon the open in a firm body,
were broken into twos andthrees. This arose from the
want of a temporary step above the berm, which would
have enabled the troops to cross the parapet with regu-
larity; instead of which they had to scramble over it as
well as they could ; and, as the top of the trench is of un-
equal height and form, their line was quite broken. The
moment they came out from the trench the enemy began
to direct on their whole front a deliberate and well-aimed
mitraillc, which increased the want of order and unsteadi-
ness caused by the mode of their advance. Poor Colonel
Yea saw the consequences too elearly. Having in vain
tried to obviate the evil caused by the broken formation
and confusion of his men, who were falling fast around
him, he exclaimed, " reis will never do ! Where's the
bugler to call them -hack ?" But alas ! at that critical
moment no bugle:: was to be found. The gallant old sol-
dier, by voice and gesture, tried to form and compose his
men, but the thunder of the enemy's guns close at hand
and the 'zoom of the early dawn frustrated his efforts ;
and as he rushed along the troubled mass of troops which
were herding together under the rush of grape, and en-
deavoured to get them into order for a rush at the bat-
teries, which was better than standing still, or retreating
in a panic, a charge of the deadly missile passed, and the
noble old soldier fell in advance of his men, struck at once
in head and stomach by grape shot. The division has lost
upwards of 320 men killed and wounded, and it suffered
severely as it retired from the futile attack. The signal for
our assault was to be given by the discharge of two service
rockets, which were to have been fired when the French
got into the Malakhoff, and the latter were to havehoisted
a flag as a signal of their success.
It is certain that the French did for a short time esta-
blish themselves in the Malakhoff, but they were soon ex-
pelled with loss, and I saw with my own eyes a large tri-
angular blue and black flag waving from the Malakhoff all
during the fight. The moment the rockets were fired the
Light Division rushed out of cover; in a quarter of an
hour this infantry Balaklava was over, so far as any chance
of success was concerned. The Second Division, seeing
that the flank attacks failed, wisely kept under cover, and
suffered but a trifling loss. Had they foolishly advanced,
we should have to deplore greater and more useless
slaughter. The 41st, under Lieutenant-Colonel Eman, were
to form the assaulting party. Captain Mauleverer, of the
30th Regiment, commanded the working party. The 2d
Battalion Royals was to follow the 41st, and with the 55th
was to form a supporting party, while the 49th and 47th
were in reserve, and the 62d were to furnish men for car-
rying woolpacks and ladders. They were marched off and
took ground, guided by Captain Layard, and were formed
in the old advanced parallel, next to the Quarry, and re-
mained there till the attack failed. The Fourth Division
were guided clown by their active Quartermaster-General
Colonel Wyndham, and took ground in the trench to the
left, but it would seem as if they attacked a little too near
the apex of the Redan. Poor Sir John Campbell seems to
have displayed a courage amounting to rashness. He sent
away Captain Hume and Captain Snodgrass, his aide-de-
camp, just before he rushed out of the trench, as if averse
to bring them into the danger he meditated, and fell in the
act of cheering on his men. I have in my former letter
stated the losses of the Fourth Division, and the part they
took in the fight, dreadful and useless as it was. The 57th,
out of 400 men, had more than a third killed and wounded,
and it became evident that the contest on the left was as
hopeless as the fight on the right, and in fifteen minutes
all was over.
The brigade under Major-General Eyre, which was des-
tined to occupy the Cemetery, and to carry the Barrack
Batteries, consisted of the 9th Regiment, 18th Regiment,
28th Regiment, 38th Regiment, and 44th Regiment. Four
volunteers were selected from each company to form an
advanced party, under Major Fiolden, of the 44th Regi-
ment, to feel the way and cover the advance. The 18th
Royal Irish followed as the storming regiment. Tho bri-
gade was turned out at 12 o'clock, and proceeded to march
down the road on the left of the Greenhill battery to the
Cemetery, and halted under cover while the necessary dis-
positions were being made for the attack. General Eyre,
addressing the 18th, said, "I hope, my men, this morning
you will do something that will make every cabin in
Ireland ring again !" The reply was a loud cheer, which
instantly drew on the men a shower of grape. The skir-
mishers advanced just as the general attack began, and,
with some French on their left, rushed at the Cemetery,
which WISII Tory feebly defended, They got mg Olgina

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the place after a Blight resistance; with small loss, and took
some prisoners, but the moment the-enemy retreated their
batteries opened a heavy fire on the place from the lett of
the Redan and from theßarrack Battery. Four companies
of the 18th at once rushed on out of the Cemetery towards
the towneand actually succeeded in getting Pesse`ssion Of
the suburb. Captain Hayman 'was gallantly leading-en
his company when he was shot through the knee. Capt.
Esmond° followed, and the men, once established, prepared
to defend the' houses they, occupied. As they drove the
Russians out, they, were pelted with large stones by the
latter ott their way up.. to -the battery, which 'quite over-
hangs the suburb. The Russians could not depress their
guns sufficientTy to firs down on our men, but they directed
a severe, flanking fire cn them-from an angle of the Roden
works. There was nothing for it but to keep up a vigo-
rous fire fronilhe'honses,',aaad to delude the enemy into the
belief that the occupiers were more numerous than they
were. Meantime; the, Ens.stans- did their utmost to blow
down the houseeevith shot and , shell, and fired'grape in-
cessantly, but the -soldiers -liePt close, though 'they lost
men occasionally, and they were, most materially aided by
the fire of the regimmts 'in the' Cemetery behind them,
which was directed a*the .Russian embrasures; so that
the enemy could not get.etitto hie dOwn on the houses be-
low. Some of the housed wee, comfortably, furnished.
One of them was as -well fitted up as most English man-
sions, the rooms full of fine furniture, a piano in the draw-
ing-room, and articles of luxury and taste not deficient.
Oar men unfortunately found that the cellars were
not empty, and ..bat there was abundance of
fine muscat wine froni the south coast of the
Crimea, and of the- stronger, wines, perfumed with
roses and mixed with fruits, which are grown to
the interior, in the better sort of houses. Some of the
officers, when they welt away, carried off articles of cloth-._,
ing and papers as proofs of their entrance into theeplace,
and some others took away pigeons and guineapigs, which
were tame in the houses. The troops entered the place
about 4 o'clock in the morning and could not leave it till
9 eeloek in thereverting.' The Ittunians blew uP many of.
the houses and set fire'to others,. and when our men re-
tired the flames were spreading along the street. The 18th
Regiment lost 250 men. In the middle of the day Captain
Esmonde wrote to General Eyre to say that he required
support, that the men were short of ammunition, and that
the rifles were clogged. The rifles, which were of the En-
field pattern, had been only served to the regiment the
day before, and again it was found. that these admirable
weapons are open to the grave defect which has been so
frequently mentioned, and that they are liable to become
useless after firing 20 rounds. A sergeant volunteered to
creep back with this letter, but, when he reached the
place where the general ought to have been, he found that
he had been obliged to withdraw owing to his wound,
and ho therefore delivered the document to Colonel Ed-
werdes. As there was no possibility of getting support
down to the troops, Colonel Eciwardes crept down along
with the sergeant and got into the houses to see how
matters were going on. The officer in command, on learn-
ing the state of the case, ordered the men to keep up the
hottest fire they could ; and meantime they picked up the
rifles and ammunition o f the killed and wounded, and
were by that means enabled to continue their fusillade.
The 9th Regiment succeeded in effecting a lodgment in the
houses in two or three different place; and held their posi-
tion, as well as the 18th.. A sergeant and a handful of
men actually got possession of the little Wasp Battery, in
which there were only 12 or 14 Russian artillerymen. They
fled on the approach of our men,butwhen the latter turned
round they discovered they were unsupported ; and the
Russians seeing that the poor fellows were left alone,
came down on them and drove them out of the battery.
An officer and half-a-dozen men of the same regiment got
up close to a part of the Flagstaff Battery, and were ad-
vancing into it, when they, too, saw that they were by
themselves, and, as it was futile to attempt holding their
ground, they retreated. About 15 French soldiers on,
their left aided them, but as they were likewise unsup-
ported they had to retire. Another officer with only 12
men, took one of the Russian Rifle Pits, bayonetted those
they found in it, and held possession of it throughout the
day, Meanwhile, while these portions of the sth and 18th
and parties of the 44th and 28th were in the houses, the
detachments of the same regiments and of the 38th kept
up a hot fire from the Cemetery on the Russians in the
battery, and on the sharpshooters, all the time being ex-
posed to a tremendous shower of bullets, grape, round
shot, and shell. The loss of the brigade, under such cir-
cumstances, could not but be extremey severe. One part
of it, separated from the other, was exposed to a destruc-
tive fire in houses, the upper portion of which crumbled
into pieces or fell in under fire, and it was only by keep-
ing in the lower storey, which was vaulted and well-built,
that they were enabled to hold their own. The other
parts of it, far advanced from our batteries, were almost
unprotected, and were under a constant mitraille and
bombardment from guns which our batteries had failed to
touch. The total number of killed and wounded in the
Brigade was, up to the last returns I could see, 107 killed,
552 wounded—total, 659.
General Eyre has issued the following order :

" SECOND BRIGADE ORDERS, THIRD DIVISION.

" June 19.

" The Major-General commanding the brigade re-
quests that the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men
will accept his thanks for their conduct yesterday. He can-
not sufficiently express his admiration of their coolness,
gallantry, and discipline during a most trying day. He
must tender his thanks to the medical department for their
judicious arrangements to provide for the wounded, which
arrangements were most successful. To Assistant-Sur-
geon Gibbous, 44th Regiment, and Geoves, 38th Regi-
ment, especially, much_ praise is due for their zealous and
humane exertions in the field, while exposed to s galling
fire from the enemy."
The detachments from the hard-working and Ittle no-
ticed Naval Brigade consisted of four parties of GO men
each, one for each column, but only two of thorn went
out, the other two being kept in reserve ; they yore told
off to carry scaling-ladders and woolbags, and to place
them for our storming parties. It is not to be Ivondered
at if they suffered severely. On that eventful day 14 men
worn killed and 47 were wounded. When the men re-
treated, overwhelmed by the storm from the encmy's bat-
tery, several officers and men were left behind wounded,
and endured fearful agonies for hours, without a CLIP of
water or a cheering voice to comfort them. lieutenant
Ermiston lay for hours under the abattis of tie Redan,
and was reported dead, but he watched his opportunity,
and got away with only a contusion of the knee. Mr. Ken-
nedy, senior mate of the London, and of the Naval Bri-
gade, was also loft behind close to the abattis, and after
several hours of painful concealment he rolled himself over
and over like a ball down the declivity, and Managed to
get into the trench. Lieut. Kidd camp in all safe, and
was receiving the congratulations of a brother officer,
when he saw a wounded soldier lying out in the open. He
at once exclaimed—" We must go and save him !" and
leapt over the parapet in order to do so. He had scarcely
gone a yard when ho was shot through the breast and died
iu an hour after.