The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-11-02
respect and Of my entire devotedness.
MARSHAL A DE ST. ARNAUD.
SCENES AFTER THE BATTLE,

Il was terrible and sickening sight to 90
over the battlefield. Till deprived of my
horse by a chance shot, rode about TO as
certain, as certiin far as possible, the
less of our friends, and doing so ] was often
brought 10 a stard still by the difficulty of
getting through the piles of wounded Rus
slams, mingled too often with our own poor
soldiers. The bills of Greenwich Park in
fair time are not more densey covered it'll
human beings than were the nights of the
Alma with dead and dying. On these bloody
mounds fell 2,l96 English officers and men,
and upwards OF 5000 Russians, while their
western extremity was covered with the
bodies of l,400 gallant Frenchman, and Ct
more than 5000 of their foes
When Lord RagleD and his staff and the
DuSe of Cambridge rode round 10 The top of
the hill, the troops cheered then with thrill.
ing effect-a shout of victorv-which never
car be forgotten The enemy, who were
flying in he distance, might almost have
heard its echoes as it rolled among the hills.
Our men had indeed done their work We III,
for the action, which commenced st l,o5 on
our part, was over at about p. NJ. In fact
the actual close continuous fighting did not
last two hours.
EQUIPMENT OF TIE RUSSIAN SOLDIER.
The Russian soldiers were mostly stout,
strong men. Several OF the regiments, sd
and 10Th, for example, wore a black leather
he imet, handsomely mounted with brass, and
having brass cone on The top, with hole
Tor the reception OF TUT, feather or plume
others wore simply white foraging cap.
They were all dressed in long trab coats with
brass buttons, bearing the number of the
regiment. Those coats fitted loosely, were
gathered in at the back by small strap and
button. descended 10 the ankles, and seemed
stout, comfortable garments, though the
cloth was coarse in texture; the trowsers. OF
coarse blue stuff, were thrust inside a pair OF
W cling on boots, open at the top, 10 admit
of their being comfortably tucked down; the
boots were stout, well.made and serviceabIe.
Their knapsacks astonished our soldiers. On
opening them each was found 10 contain the
dress uniform coatee OF the man, blue or
green, with white facings, and sla shes ike
our own, pair of clean drawers, clean shirt
pair ot stout mits, a case Containing a good
pair OF scissors marked "Saran," an excel
lie penknife with one large blade, OF Rus
sian manufacture, ball Of Irvine, a roll OF
leather, wax, thread, needles and pins, a
hair-brush and comb. small lookin o. glass.
razor, s;rop, and soap, shoe brush and
blacking. The general remark of our
men vas that the Russians were very
"clean soldiers" and certainly the men
on the field had white, fair skins to Justly
the expression. Each man had a LOAF ui
dark brown bread, of sour taste and dis
agreeable oder, in his knaps ok, and linen
roll containing quantity OF brown Coarse
stuff broken up into Jumps and large grains,
which Is crushed biscuit or hard granu ated
bread prepared with oil. This, we were told
by the prisoners, was the cole food Of the
men. They eat the bread With onious and
oil; the powder is reserve ration; aud if they
uarch they may be for days without food,
and remain hungry ill they can get fresh
and more "breadstuff" 1T is perfectly as.
tonishing TO think they can keep together on
such diet; and yet they are strong, muscular
men enough. The surgeons remarked that
their tenacity of life was very remarkable
Many OF them lived with wounds calculated
TO destroy two or three ordinary men.