Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-04
Incidents nj sernsropoI.


mentioned in General Canroberts report of
the battle of the Sth instant, hold high rank
in the Russian army. The Grand Duke Nj
cholas, the third son of the Emperor, is %
years of age. He is Inspector General Of the
engineering department, Aid de- Camp OF the
Emperor, titular Colonel of a regiment OF cul-
rassiers of Astrakan. He is besides proprietor
of the I'd regiment of Austrian hussars, and
chief of the 5th regiment Of Prussian cuiras-
siers. The Grand Duke Michael, fourth son
of the Gar, is % years Of age. He has the
title of Quarter-master General OF the artil-
lery, is commander of the I'd Brigade OF ar
tillery of the Imperial Guard, Aid Camp
of the Emperor, Colonel of regiment OF lam
GERS, of regiment of dragons, and of reg
iment of horse chasseuis
A SOLDIERS FEELINGS IN THE MIDST OF
BATTLE.-A letter from private soldier says:
"rhe bullets of the Mimic rifle go past you
with most internal sound. It's rs though
mocking devils were sneering at you in the
air. But your blood soon gets up, the sound
maddens you, the smell Of gunpowder has in
toXication in it, your ems tingle as if fire was
running through them, the eyes strain, the
jaws become rigid, and in you so" He states
that he lost himself altogether at the Alma,
till he found himselfa victor. He got a wound
in the forehead only Craze, but 1t bled con-
siderably, "the blood ran down into his mouth,
and in his burning excitement, he drank 1t as
though it had been inspiring wine
SUNDAY SERvIcE.-The Russians opened a
very heavy cannonade on us this morning
they always have done so on Sundays. Divine
service was performed with a continued bass
Of cannon rolling through the responses and
liturgy. The French were terribly cut up by
the Garden Battery, more so, however, by
their misfortune of last night. The Russians
made a stealthy soTtie toward morning, and
advanced close to the French pckets. When
challenged, they replied, "Inglis, lnglis,
which passed muster with our allies as bona
.fde English, they say, and ere they knew
where they were, the Russians had charged
them, got into their batteries, and spiked five
mortars. They We're speedily repulsed but
this misadyenture has mortified our brave al
lies exceedingly.
A NOVEL EXPLosIoN.-On the oath, (the
eighth day Of the siege,) we had another eX-
ploson on our right attack. The story has an
ar of Munchausen about it, and if the facts
were not well-known, L should have some
scruples in telling it. An eight inch gun had
just been loaded with live shell, and the
match was applied to fire it off. At that mo-
ment one of the enemy S shells entered the gun,
and the two shells exploding burst the gun.
Every man in the battery was more or less
! hurt Some were killed.
A TERRIFIC SPEcTAoLE.--The Russian bat
teres having it now all their own way, ham
mered unremittingly upon us with the great
est vivacity. They had sent forth from their
ramparts loud shouts of defiance or of victory
when the explosion of the French and Eng
lish magazines, acquainted them with our mis-
fortune; but it was now our turn to crew, for
about half past three there suddenly shot up
wards from the works, or rather the Radan on
our front, white liyd flame, which ascend
ed high into the air, and while we all paused
to gaze on the spectacle, sound which made
the very earth tremble beneath u.s. followed
by most awful report, told us that the Redan
had ceased to exist-lor in the next minute its
garrison Of hundreds, blown to atoms, dis
| membered, aud mutlated by the action of the
explosion, were discovered hundreds of yards
| above the parent earth. So fearful and terri
| flying a spectacle l never have, nor do l hope
ever again to witness. In the midst of dense
volume Of smoke and sparks, which resem-
| bled a waterspout ascending to the clouds,
| were visible TO the naked eye, arms, legs,
| trunks, and heads of The Russian warriors,
! mingled with cannons wheels, and every OBJ
| ject of military warfare, and l may say with
every living thing it contained, The eXplo-
sions in the French and English batteries were
like flashes in the pan Of musket compared
with this.
The HoRRoRs ON THE BATTLE FIELD. AS
| matter of course, the field on the spots W here
the cavalry contests had taken place. was
horrible sight; more SO from the peculiarly
| CHASTITY nature of sabre wounds. In such
! places the dead and dying men and horses lit"
orally covered the ground. Both ourselves
and the enemy appear to have had two horses
killed or wounded for one man. This gave
the field an unusual sanguinary appearance,
| very likely to mislead those not actually on
the spot L have always imagined that split
skulls and coven heads were figures of speech,
until today, when l have, indeed, been terri
| bly, convinced of the reality Of such horrors
| Some ofthe dead, today, had their heads as
| completely cloven as if the operation was per-
| formed by surgeon with saw. Nearly all
| the Russians were so killed Our fellows had
been principally slam with lance thrusts l
saw one body with thirteen such wounds
through the chest and stomach. Another man
| had six, which were all mere flesh wounds,
and not dangerous. The same man, III the
18th Lancers. extraordinary and incredible as
it may appear, had two horses killed under
him, one or two sabre and bullet wounds in
his cap his sword bent double in its sheath
one in his lance staff, and sword cuts innu-
merable. Such escapes may well appear al
| most miraculous, yet in hurried hand to hand
combat they often occur. There was large
proportion of killed and wounded Russian Of
ticers it was quite impossible to distinguish
them from the priyates, except by the superb
GRITTY of their under clothing. Their uniform
was precisely similar to the common soldier S,
with the exception of a narrow strip of gold
lace on the shoulder. Struck with this pecu-
liarty, addressed one of the Russian Off
GERS, who was slightly wounded, and could
speak French, and he informed me that the
cause of the change i'll their dress was owing
to an order to that effect, which had come
from ST. Petersburgh about three months ago,
when the invasion Of the Crinea appeared
probable.
On the day of the battle, IenschilloF wore
the uniform of private cavalry soldier. The
same officer informed us that lie was certain
we should never take Sebasopol, either by sea
or land. The Russians had thrown up so
many additional works that the place was even
stronger than when we first sat down before
it. Our fire on the town, however, had done
good deal Of mischief especially i'll setting
fire to d Russian hospital, III which were one
thousand sick and wounded the majority Of
whom persisted in the flames He laid the
blame Of this awful accident on the Russian
commanders, who declined to hoist any dis
tinguishing flag by which the allies might
know and respect the building. Several other
of the Russian wounded spoke English. One
unfortunate young officer, who had desper-
ate cut across the abdomen, through which bis
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