The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-24 00:00:00

the heavy loss of officers. They came into action in uni-
form, and among our grey coated soldiers were conspicuous
marks for the enemy's bullets.
A great deal of mischief was also done by the Russian
ships in the harbour, which threw a perfect shower of E.
and 10-inch shot and shell among our fellows. They con-
tinued this all the night after the b tttle, though their own
troops were withdrawn, and the shell only fell among their
own killed and wounded. The correspondent of the Illus-
trated London -Velez had a narrow escape. Two round
shot passed through his tent, and before he could leave it
they were followed by a large shell which burst the tent,
within two feet of where ho was standing. The tent was
literally tern to ribbons by the explosion, yet strange to
say the representative of your pictorial contemporary was
unhurt.

On the evening of the battle I went over the field. All
our wounded have been removed, and the wounded of our
enemy wore being gathered in. The kindness and attention
of our fellows to their helpless enemies was beyond all
praise. There is nothing so awful as the spectacle of the
bodies of those who have been struck down by round shot
or shell. One poor fellow of the 95th had been struck by
two 24-pounders in the head and body. A shell afterwards '
burst on him and tore him to pieces, and it was only by
the fragments of cloth, with the regimental buttons ad-
hering, that you could toll that the bloody mass which
lay iu the road had ever boon a human being. Some had
their heads taken off at the neck, as with an axe; others
their legs gone from the hips ; others their arms and others
again who wore hit in the chest or stomach, were literally
as smashed as if they had been crushed in a machine. Pas-
sing up to Sebastopol over heaps of Russian dead, you
came to the spot where the Guards had been compelled to
retire from the defence of the wall above Inkorman Val-
ley. Here our dead were nearly as numerous as the ene-
my's. Across the path, side by side, lay 5 Guardsmen,
who were all killed by one round shot as they advanced to
charge the enemy. They lay on their faces in the came
attitude, with their muskets tightly grasped in bath hands,
and all had the same grim painful frown upon their features

like men who were struck down in the act of closing with
their foes. Beyond this the Russian Guardsmen and line
regiments lay as thick as leaves, intermixed with dead and
wounded horses. The path lay through thick brushwood,
bat the path was slippery with blood, and the brushwood
was broken down and encimbered with the dead. The
scene from the battery was awful—awful beyond descrip.
'ion. I stood upon its parapet at about 9 at night, and
felt my heart sink as I gazed upon the scene of carnage
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around. The moon was at its full, and showed every •b-
-ject ail if by the light of day. Facing me WAS the valley

of Inkerman, with the Tchernaya like a band of silver flow-
ing gracefully between the hills, which, for varied and

picturesque beauty, might vie with any part of the world.
Yet I shall never recall the memory of Inlcerruan Valley
with any but feelings of loathing and horror; for round
the spot from which I surveyed the scene, lay upwards of
5,000 bodies. Many badly wounded also lzy there ; and
their low, dull means of mortal agony struck with terri-

isle distinctness upon the ear, or worse still, the hoarse
gurgling cry and vehement struggles of those who were
convulsed before they passed away. Round the hill small
groups of men with hospital stretchers were searching out
for those whe still survived ; and others again, with lan-
terns, lousily turning over the dead, lcokisg for the bodies
of officers who were known to be killed, but who had not
been found. Here also were English women whose hus-
bands had not returned hurrying about with loud lamen-
tations, turning the faces of our dead to the moonlight,
and eagerly seeking for what they feared to find. These
latter were far more to be pitied than the inanimate forms
of those who lay slaughtered around. The ambulances, as
fast as they came up, received their load of sufferers, and
even blankets were employed to convey the wounded to the
rear. Outside the battery the Russians lay two and throe
deep. Iliad's the place was literally full with bodies of
Russian Guardsmen, 55th and 20th.

Some say as if prepared for burial, and as though hands
of relatives had arranged their mangled limbs, while ethers
again were is almost startling positions, half standing or
kneeling, clutching their weapons or drawing a cartridge.
Many lay with both their hands exteided towards the sky,
as if to avert a blow ar utter a prayer, while others had a
malignant scowl of mingled fear aad hatred as if indeed
they died despairing. The moonlight imparted an aspect
of unnatural paleness to their forms, and as the cold damp
wind swept round the hills and waved the boughs above
their upturned faces the shadows gave a horrible appear-
ance of vitality ; and it seemed as if the dead were laugh-
ing, and about to rise. This was not the case ea one spot
but all over the bloody field.
There is no prospect of any fighting for the next month.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
(Fpom, ca Correspondent of the Titne3.)
Camp before Sobaatopol, Nor. 7.

On the sth, about 4 a.m., I heard all the bells in Sebas-
topol ringing, as if for alarm, and at the same time the
discharge of guns from the town at that hour was greater
than usual. About 5 a.m. tke relieving pickets marched
off, and about 6 30 the pickets which had been relieved
arrived in their tents. They had no sooner done so (I
speak of those of the Second Division, where I was located,
which division occupies the ground close to the field of
battle) when musketry was heard, the pickets of that
division were attacked, and the whole camp got
wader arms. The Russians had attacked our position
in great force, as they did on the 25th. They drove
in the pickets, and got their guns on the same ridge
where they were before ; so before we well knew
that the enemy were so near, the shot and shell dropped
into the tents of the Second Division so fast that, although
the tents were immediately struck, at the end of the action
there was hardly one that was not more or loss damaged,
while some were almost cut into shreds. The Second. Divi-
sion marched up to repel the attack, then the Guards, and
finally part of every regiment—except the Third Division,
who were in reserve, and the Highland Brigade, who were
at Balaklaya—were included in the battle. The French
also were extensively engaged, both infantry and artillery.
The Turks did not fire a shot. The battle began before 7,
and was not over until after 3 p.m. Sometimes for a few
minutes the firing would comparatively cease on both sides,
and they begin again with greater fury. The morning was
dark and foggy, and the sun could hardly be said to rise
at one time the fog was se dense that what with that and
the smoke little could be seen except the flashes of the
guns. Later in the day the fog cleared off and the day
became bright and fine ; before that the Russians had,
from their immense numbers and numerous and excellen
artillery, nearly won our ridge, but then the aspect of at-
fairs changed, and they were forced to retire. They ad-
vanced up to the breastwork and muzzles of our guns ;
those that I saw were almost blows to pieces. Their artil-
lery practice was excellent. .A.s soon as the battle was
ended I went ever the field. On our ridge, where were
our batteries, the ground was covered with dead, princi-
pally Russians, their bodies fearfully shattered. They
fought desperately, and at one time were nearly outflank-
iliguendearrYing the ridge. One Russian, or rather his
remains, lay on the parapet of the breastwork ; had
it not been for his clothes, he would have dropped to
pieces. Ho had literally been blown from the muzzle of a
gun while in the act of climbing over the breastwork. I
then went to the ridge and knoll whore our advanced
pickets had been, and which were occupied for a time by
the Russian artillery. There there were not so many
bodies, for the Russians had doubtless carried them off;
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road which runs across the field of action, where our right
had been. A little in advance is a battery for two guns,
which had been erected for the purpose of silencing a Rua-
Sian battery on the other side of the Inkerinan Valley.
This having been done, the guns had been long since re-
moved. Here the fight bad been fiercest, and the sight
exceeds all description. For a great distance the
ground was absolutely covered with dead ; Rue.
lions, Z• 1111•118, Frenchmen of the line, English guards.•
men and linesmen lay heaped together. Here was the
greatest slaughter, but everywhere where any fighting had
been there was no want of bodies, and I am certain, judg-
ing from three visits to the ground, that for every English-
man or Frenchman there were eight or ten Russians. The
wounds were frightful—some were ripped open with shot
or shell, some had their legs blown off, others were head-
less, and the 'brains of many had actually dripped out of
the imp:muse holes made by the Mille bullets, leaving the
skull empty.

Forty-eight thortsaid fresh Rumbals were engaged.
They Lad come front Porekop, and were conveyed in carts
and accompanied by the Grand atkes Michael and Nicho-
las. They had marcheclout of the town overnight, togetker
with all the available force there, and lay at the foot of
the hills near our position. The night was dark and rainy
and the morning also, so that they were enabled to ascend
the bills unperceived by our sentries,- and by that means
got their guns (about 30) into position before we could
bring anything to bear upon them. These guns were fol-
lowed by infantry so numerous that for some time we had
no chance with them. 60,000 Russians wore engaged
altogether, and their columns swarmed up the hills so that
there appeared to be no end to them.

One thing that made both their artillery and ours still
more effective, and the battle more bloody, was that the
experience of the aetion of the 26th had given the accu-
rate range to both. It was a battle of position, not of
reanvrirrre, for none was required,. From first to last it
was band-to-hand bush-fighting—regular butchery. The
Russian fordo encamped in the Valley of Balaklava at one
time threatened to advance, and did make a feint or false
attack en our rear, but, except that, remained nearly sta-
tionary the whole day. In the evening, in all directions,
the reports of firelocks wore heard, where the wounded
horses were being shot and put cut of their misery. In
going over the field I found many bottles which had contained
spirits, and I was informed by the escort in charge of pri-
soners that they all smelt strongly of raki. There is no
doubt that the Russian army was primed with drink for
the attack ; most of our men went into battle without their
breakfasts. Our loss in- Generals and other officers has
tasen great. I do not attempt to name them, as their
n3,nies will appear in the official returiag far more accit-