The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-15 00:00:00

A DRAGOON'S ACCOUNT OP MI CHARGE.

The worst affair we had was the day before yester-
day. At daybreak the enemy appeared, and advanced,
and in such numbers that they took from the Turks two
of their batteries, and turned the guns upon us. We
were obliged to retreat out of range of the guns ; and
this so elated the enemy that they actually had courage
enough to come into the open field with us, Three re-
giments of their cavalry tried to gain possession of the
Highlanders' (93d) position, and charged them, but they
had not time to repent, for they went down like cut corn ;
what were left of them turned and fled, and we pur-
sued them over their own hills ; here they were re-
inforced by three more regiments of cavalry, includ-
ing Nicholas's crack Imperial Guards. There were
the Greys and First Royals up at this time, and we
charged them—they had nothing else for it, so they
charged at the same time. Oh God ! I cannot describe
it ; they were so superior in numbers that they " out-
flanked" is, and we were in the middle of them. I
never certainly felt less fear in my life than I did at that
time, and I hope God will forgive me, for I felt more like
a devil than a man. We fought oar way out of them as
only Englishmen can fight ; and the 4th, sth, and 6th
were there up with us. I escaped without a scratch, thank
God, though I was covered with blood ; my horse was
not even wounded ; but, oh f the work of slaughter
that then began—'texas truly awful, but I suppose it was
necessary; we cut them down like sheep, and they
did not seem to have power to resist. The plain is
covered with dead Russians, and of course we loft seine
of our poor comrades on the field. We only lost two,
and about seven wounded. Well, when we had finished
this lot, we thought of going home to breakfast ; but,
no ; they (the enemy) had some guns over the hills that
Lord Raglan sent word were to be charged and captured
at any cost. So off we went again. They received
us very quietly into their ground—Lord Lucan lead-
ing the Heavies, and Lord Cardigan the Light
Brigade. The Light charged first this time, took
the guns, cut down the guiners, and then, when
they thought all was right, they were met by thou-
sands of Cossacks who had been in ambush. Tho
Royals, the Greys, the 4th, sth, and 6th now charged
again. The butchering was repeated ; when suddenly a
cross front and rear fire opened upon us from the hills
—cannon, rifles, and file firing. I cannot attempt to
describe to you the scene that ensued—balls, shells, and
rockets whizzing about our ears. The men on the
right and left of me were both killed on the spot. We
hacked our way out of it as well as we could, but wore
obliged to leave the guns. Colonel Yorke had his leg
broken, and all the officers in" the front rank were
wounded. The Heavy Brigade have not lost B
many men,
but, sad to tell, oat of about SOO of the Light Brigade
that that went into the field only 400 came out ; but this
nothing to what the enemy suffered.

GENERAL LUDERS.
A wounded Russian officer stated that General Luders
ha,d commanded in chief the attack of the P-sth ult., and
that the cavalry were under the orders of the Grand
Duke Maximilianovitsch. Most of the troops had been
sent in by Menschikoff, who had collected them from
different garrisons and depots throughout the Crimea.
They had marched from all parts of the country, and
still had five days' provisions with them, and expected
more.

THE WOUNDED RUSSIANS.
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one of the wounded Russians over on his back. He
had a fearful sabre cut in his side. Tlaa poor devil
looked anything but good tempered at me ; they are all
stern, determined-looking fellows, and if these are a
sample of the army, they are certainly not clothed in
the wretched manner that the majority of the peopla
of England are led to believe. Their clothes are very
good—quite equal to our army, and their arms also ; I
speak of their cavalry. I did not see any of their in-
fantry among the killed or wounded, as they were not
engaged near the spot.

THE OPPICERB.
In the two leading reghnents, including Lord Car-
digan (who led in person) and his staff, we had 19 officers.
Only throe came out of action untouched bath man and

horse ; all the others were killed, wounded, or prisoners,
or had their horses hurt. The 17th had no field officers,
but five captains. They came out of action commanded
by the junior captain, I believe.