The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-12-22
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London Morning Herald:
On the evening of the battle, | went over
the field. think | have said, over aud over
again, that it was sight that could never be
described. A considerable number, some
800 to 200 Russian killed and wounded
were lying among our tents, and here also
were many, too many corpses Of our Zouaves,
and French Infantry of the line. A II our
wounded have been removed, and the woun-
ded pf the enemy were being gathered in.
The kindness and attention of our fellows To
their helpless enemies was beyond all praise.
They brought them water, got knapsacks 10
put under their heads, and borrowed blan-
keis in which TO cover them from The raw
night air; here and there, small groups of
them stood absorbed in pity around some
PROSTATE foe, to whom their kindness came
too lale, and who, shot either through the
head or lungs, gasped out his existence in
painful sobs, or termin ated it IN a horrible
CONFUSION which made your blood curdle to
hear.
A little above the line OF the tents as the
brow of the hill overlooking lnkermann
Lights. Here was the spot where the allied
artillery engaged that o! the enemy after the
retreat, and here the 81 ght was sickening in
deed. There is nothing so awful as the
spectacle OF the bodies OF those who have
been struck down by round shot or she'll.
One poor fellow of the 95th mad been struck
by two "a Founders in the head and body.
A shell afterward burst on him and tore him
to pieces, aud it was only by the fire. gmenis
of cloth, with the reg mental buttons adher-
ing, that you could tell that the rough, bloody
mass which lay in The road had ever been
human being. But it is useless TO dwell on
these sickle ming details; suffice to say that
here, among the carcasses of some 200 killed
and wounded horses, lay the bodies OF our
brave English and French artilerymen, all
more or less frighttully muiilated. Some
hadtheir heads taken off at the neck, as il
with an axe; others their arms, and others,
again who were hit in the chest or stomach,
were literally as smashed as il they had been
crushed in mach ne.
But it was not alone the allies who lay
here; on the contrary, there were ten Rus
sian corpses for one OF theirs; but the latter
were all killed by muskeiry before the artil.
lery came up. On this spot the Russians
kept dropping shells the whole night but
thre vindictive efforts were in vain; all who.
| lay in reach OF their missiles had sufferd the
last which they were To endure on earth.
Passing up the road TO Sebastopol between
heaps Of Russian dead, you come to the spot
where the Guards had been compelled to
retire from the defense oil the wall above
Inkerman Valley. Here our dead were
nearly as numerous as they advanced To
charge upon ;he enemy. They lay on their
faces, in the same attitude, with their mus
kets tightly grasped in both 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 suardsmen and line reg-
men,s lay thick as leaves, intermixed with
dead and wounded horses. The latter, with
fractured limbs, were now and then rising.
and after staggering few steps, rolling over
among the corpses, sporting and plunging
feariully. Up to the right of the wall was
the way to the Two gun Battery. The puth
lay through the thick brushwoo but the
path was slippery with blood. and the brush.
wood was broken down and encountered with
the dead.
The scene from the battery was awful
awful beyond description. | stood upon the
parapet at about nine at night, and felt my
heart sink as gazed upon the scene of car
mage around. The moon was at it's full and
showed every object as if by the light of day.
Facing me was the Valley of Inkermann, with
the Chernaya like a band of silver flowing
gracefully between the hills, which Tor var.e
and picturesque beauty, might we with any
part of the world. Yet shall never recall
the memory of lnkcrmann Valley with any
but feelings of loathing aud horror; for
around the spot from which | surveyed the
scene, lay upwards OF 5000 bodies. Many
badly wounded also lay there; aud their low
dull means Of mortal agony struck with hor
rlble distinctness upon the ear, or, worse
still, the hoarse gurgling cry and veheme mt
struggles vi those who were convulsed be-
fore they passed away. Around the hill
small groups Of men with hospital stretchers
were searching out for those who still sur
vived; and others, again with lanterns, busiiy
turning over the dead, looking for the bodies
of officers who were known 10 be killed, but
who had not been found. HIRE also were
/ Engiish women whose husbands had not re-
turned. hurrying about with loud lamenta-
tons, 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 ptied than the inanmate forms OF
those who lay slaughtered around. The
ambulances, as fast as they came up, receiv-
ed their load OF sufferers, and even blankets
were employed to convey the wounded to the
rear.
/ Outside the battery the Russ Iins lay two
and three deep. Inside, The place was liter
ally full with bodies OF Russian Guardsmen,
55th and Goth. The fine, tail forms OF our
poor fellows could be distinguished at a
glance, though the grey great coats, stained
with blood, rendered them alike externally.
They lay as they fell, in heaps; sometimes
our men over three CT four Russians, and
sometimes Russian over three or four of
ours. Some had passed away with a smile
on their faces, aud seemed as if asleep; 9TH
ers were horribly contorted, and with distend-
ed eyes and swollen features, appeared to