The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

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divided the plain; he moved towards the wood--a
very dense pine wood, which mantled the ground
on the first undulations of the hills. As the ad-
vanced lines of the Bersaglieri reached the brow of
the table-land, the whole of the Garibaldian youth
had sought the shelter of the wood. It was about
noon.

So far there is little or no discrepancy between
the various reports which I have before my eyes ;
but now I beg you to listen to the two hostile
parties, as they tell their story one-after another.
" The troops," says the letter of a royal officer, an
eye-witness,

" Advanced- to the attack ; they were received
with rifle shots; the fightbegari ; a column of the
royal troops turned the left flank of the a2ribaldians,
and threatened them also in the rear.. The 'voin.e,
teers were routed. Paliavicino waved a white
handkerchief, the firing ceased, and a parlerrzcntaire
presented himself to Garibaldi. This latter was
wounded ; seeing the parlimicidaire, he snatched
were by his side,
up a rc.voiver to shoot him; his own officers, who
bad to tear the weapon frein nis
hand. He cooled a little, and asked on what con-
ditions they were to treat. On no conditions,'
was the answer; passive surrender, and no terms,'
'lfit be so,' Garibaldi replied, let us recommence
the fire,' but this was impossible. All his camp
was in utter disorder, t nveloped all round by the
Royalists, he had to bow Ws head, and yield to
fortune. The strugglo had lasted an hour, or little
more. There were about 12 killed between the
two parties.; the wounded were about 100."

Now for the report of the Garibaldian staff
already alluded to :
" Garibaldi was in the centre of the hill slope he
occupid by his column ; he sent his officers all along
the front with repeated, express, positive orders
not topre. We were being surrounded on all sides ;
the Bersaglieri were within shot; they had levelled
their pieces ; all our column was perfectly still. Not
one shout; not one shot. The General alone stood
up, with his wide gray plaid cloak lined with red,
thrown on his massive shoulders, following the
movements of the Royalists with his spy glass, and
from time to time turning to repeat the order, Do
not fire.' The officers took up the cry, and Do not
fire' went the round of the whole line. But the
troops had, on the contrary, precise orders to at-
tack. The Bersaglieri opened fire and moved for-
ward. No intimation or summons preceded the
fire, no parlementaire was sent. The firing deepens ;
the bullets hissed on all sides round our heads.
Unfortunately some of our raw recruits, unaccus-
tomed to such terrible sport, answered by a few
random shots; the others did not stir. Every one
kept his own ground, some standing, some seated.
All the trumpets gave the signal to stop fire; all the
officers verbally issued the same order. The troops,
on the contrary, set up the signal Forward,' and
advanced with well-sustained fire. The general,
always at his post, standing, in the midst of the
densest showers of balls, again cried, Do not fire !'
He was uttering those words when two bullets
struck him; one, a spent ball, on the thigh of the
left leg ; another, with full force, on the ankle of
the left foot. Garibaldi, at the moment of being
wounded, not only stood up, upright, but he assumed
a majestic attitude ; he took off his hat, and waving
it with his left hand, he repeatedly cried, Long
live Italy !Do not fire!' Some of the officers, the
nearest to him, removed him and laid him under a
tree. There, with his habitual calmness, he con-
tinued to give his orders. The most precise were
the following Let them come near. Do not fire !'
On all our front the fire had ceased. Presently
Menotti was brought to the spot. He also had been
hit by a spent ball in the calf of his left leg. Ho
was in great pain, unable to stand. Father and son
were laid under the same tree ; a group of officers
and soldiers gathered round the General. He had
lighted a cigar, and was smoking. He said to all,
Do not fight !' The officers, questioned by their
soldiers, also invariably answered, Do not fight.'
The trumpets, too, never ceased from their signal,
Stop fire!' not for our men, but for the troops
which fired as they advanced, even when they had
come up and were mixed with our volunteers. From
the first shot to this moment hardly a quarter et an
hour elapsed. 'Here a strange sight presented itself.
Friends, relatives, brothers, companions in recent
battles which they fought for their fatherland, meet
and recognise each other. Some are clad in the red.
shirt, others in the regular uniform ; and here were
upbraidings, especially on the part of the Redshirts,
who protest and declare that all they wanted was
Rome.' "

The narrative proceeds, stating that here a lieu=
tenant of the Staff (Royal) appeared before Geri-
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the General soon afterwards ordered that their
swords should be restord to them. Meanwhile the
surgeons examined and dressed the General's
wounds. He bade them apply cold water to them,
and all the time he smoked with great calmness
and firmness. He asked whether an amputation
was necessary, in which case it should be done
forthwith. The doctors assured him there was
no occasion for such an operation. Garibaldi
asked to see Pallavicino, who, 20 minutes later,
came to him, uncovered, and with every demon.
stration of respect. It was afterwards settled
between the officers of both staffs that the Garibal-
dian column should be disarmed and placed under
the escort of the Royal
troops. It was agreed that
Scylla, with as
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dead on both sides were very few; very few also
the wounded. In corroboration of this assertion I
the wounded, on both
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tidings,
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ceeds state that

Toiords evening the G aribaldians improvised a
litter for the removal of their chief. After an hour's
painful
march over rugged paths they came to a hut
`oberesome wounded men had been laid. Garibaldi
refused to abide there for the night. He wished to
be taken to some other hut or hay-loft, where he
might be alone. The journey in the dark on so
rough a road must have caused great torture to the
General ; but he never uttered a complaint, not a
groan. They thus, after three hours' march, reached
the hut of the Pastore Vincenzo, a spot well known
to the heroes of the expedition of 1860. There, with
straw and cloaks, they made up a bed, on which the
General rested. g‘ The night was feebly lighted by
the moon; great silence reigned over the country,
only broken by the barking of the shepherds' dogs."
They prepared water for the hero's wounds; they
gave him broth made of goat's flesh. It was mid-
night. At dawn they were up constructing a more
comfortable litter; at 6 a.m. they left for Scylla.
When the sun rose they screened the hero by a
laurel canopy. 'With the exception of a few halts
of half-an.hour, they toiled down those dreary
paths till 2 p.m., when they reached their destina-
tion.

At Scylla, Garibaldi, who had asked Pallavicino
to obtain for him leave to embark onboard en Eng-
lish vessel, was informed that his request could not
be complied with. The number of officers who were
to accompany him was also reduced to ten. Gari-
baldi instantly embarked on board the Duea di
Genova, which was ready for departure. The boats
which conveyed him on board passed before the
Stella d'ltalia, on the deck of which were General
Cialdini, Admiral Albini, and others. "No saluta-
tion passed between the prisoner and his captors."
Two of three volunteers (orderlies) who bad been
allowed by Pallavicino for Garibaldi's personal ser-
vice, were sent back by an ceder of Cialdini, con-
veyed through Albini, but the order was revoked,
and the orderlies were suffered to accompany their
chief. Garibaldi parted with. his companions witli
the cry, " A Roma ! A Roma, !" The treatment of
the prisoners on board the Duca di Genova was, by
their own confession, most courteous and conside-
rate."

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