The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-12-29


?. given by the same correspondent, from viii
|. ii as apparent that the Russian soldiers 0
l. tonished the allied forces by their brayer
J.. and discipline. Read the following pas,ag
s "Our regiments halted, extended their lin
to the left, and commenced a tremendous Fl
{ fire. The enemy. in disorder, hardly re turn
ed shot, but stood their ground, and fell b
/ hundreds and hundreds. Thrice they move
up stoidly to break our line on the left, on
, were met each time by terrible volics o
, musketry, until they closed in, when our, re
lows charged aud mossacred them at the poin
Of the bayonet.
"The fortune the day still hunn doubtful
the encny were &c tting up all their strength
Tor final effort, when Caurobert came Vi
with three regiments Of Zouaves, five rexi
ments Of Frencl infantry, and Il strong fjrct
Of artillery, and conmenccd aterrblc uttocl
on the enemy's. right flank. This occurred al
about ! ! O'clock, and from that moment the
Russian chance was hopeless. Yet though
under the French fire they were literally fall.
ing by batialions, they never showed the
lenst signs Of trcpida;ion br disorder. On
the contrary, ithcy formed up in the most
beautiful order, altered their front 80 as To
! meet the attack of the French, ard, extend.
ing their line 10 the left, prepsredto resume
their attack upon the English.
/ "At that time, however, our men were
well prepared, and, with any orde- or ar.
rangement, flung themselves headlong upon
the enemy charging with the bayonet. The
Russians boldly charged. with the bayonet al.
SO, and, for the space,of five minutes, the
3Oth, 4lst, 18th Soth, and six or seven Rus
sian regiments were stabbing, beating, and
firing at each other in the most fearful man
ner At last the enemy gave way, and be-
gan retiring in good order across the Tnker-
mann heights.
"Until saw it | never in my life could
have believed that any troops in the world
could have retired under such nurderous
fire in such perfect order. The French and
English, with a whole mass of artillery, fol-
lowed close upon the rctreating battalioGs,
pouring in volley after yolley OF grapeshot
Shell, and musketry. In fact, it was per-
feet carnage. Yet, in spite-of this, the ene-
my kept their order, retreating at almost slow
time, and every five or ten minutes hating
and charging desperately up the hill ut our
men AMI the French. In these charges the
Russians lost fearfuly. We received them
with voleys of musketry, and then dashed at
them with the bayonet. In one of these
charges the 50th French regiment Of the lihe
recaptured the two guns which in the com
mencement of the day we had lest. BY half
past two O'Clock the great mass of the enc
my had completely fallen back, leaving be.
tween 1000 and 5000 dead and wounded upon
the field behind
The same writer briefly enumerates, as
follows, the several divisions of the English
army which suffered most du'ng this terrible
conflict:
"The conduct OF the Colistresm Guards
should immortalize their name. They fought
literally to the death. They wen, into action
" tn sixteen officers and about four hundred
men, and out of this small number had eight
officers killed, five wounded, and upwards of
two hundred fank and file killed and wound
ed. The Grenaders and Fusilers also per- ;
ormed prodigies. On the whole, the brigade
Of Guards lost thirteen officers killed, fifteen
anG five hundred and eighty rank
ma ile of about sixteen hundred men enga-
yed. The Coldstreams charged the enemy
It the point OF the bayonet eleven times. At
each time the Russians crossed bayonets and
ought tiercely, but were slaughtered like
heep by our gallant fellows. The three bat.
alons Of Guards now bar ly muster one
thousand effective men. Alter the Guards
he second and fourth divisions have suffered
most. The 95Ih and 3Oth regiments are the
principal sufferers, having lost m ost of their
'ficers and men. The unfortunate 23d Ie-
;iment of the light division, which was so
erriLly cut up at Alma, has again lost heavi-
y. The Goth and 18th regiments, of the
ourth division, have lost many men aud Off
ers, as well as the 4lst, 47th, and 10th re-
,iments of the second DIVISION"
at has been decided that Sebnstopol is not
o be stormed for the present. The troops
re preparing huts for the winter and hourly
Xpecting renforcements. Should the wealth
II prove cold and unfavorable, with much
vet, ihey may be compelled to raise the
iege No one eEpecis that Sebastopol pM be
ltca these four or GUe monthS." /,