The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-12-23
Rattle ofImIxermann.


struggle in Europe than the battle of mker.
mann on the 5th November. Neither party
has been III condition to resume offensive
operations since that time. We clip from
the eastern papers some of the details of that
battle and Of The general position of affairs,
that cannot fail TO interest our readers
SO simple in its main thread (says an edi-
toral in the London SPECTATOR is tie story
of the battle Of lnkermann, that the official
dispatches and fuller correspondence which
reach us this week scarcely modify the tale,
but rather, as usual, enable us to realize the
magnitude OF the contest, its desperate OBJ
s,inacy, lis appalling amount of bloodshed.
the imminent peril of our (allied) soldiers.
and the hrroisln which enabled them to en-
Gure, to resist, and to triumph, over fearful
odds.
For a day or two previously to the 9Th Of
November, the Russians who already pos
sessod large force within the prolonged for
,itications. and large force towards the
rear in tn; neighborhood of Balaklava
had been observed to receive reinforce
,nents. estimated at 80, 900 or 40, 600; which
added to Lprandi's corps on the Russian
left, Of 50 600 or more, and the garrison
would probably justify Gen. Canrobert's es
innate of 100 900 men in one way or an
morable 9th of November. To augment the
weight of the force brought down to crush
the basiegers, the now useless army of the
Danube had been Withdrawn from Molda-'
Via. leaving B-ssarabia still defended BY its.
speciul army, but not, it is supposed, entire
" cxhausting the reintorcempnts to be
brought from the interior. The effort of
M.nSchikotf to throw his strength into sue
cesson Of powerful, and if possible, decisive
blows, is shown by the advance of Dannen-t
bcrgs army in the very lightest order, aug
nenting the number about Sevastopol with
out much regard either 20 their equipment or
prOviSiOn. The aim was to bear down by
accumula ted pressure; and 1t was with such
4 view that the batteries resumed the bonn
bardment of the allies in their beSieged
camp strong force from the garrison moved
out 10 act with Dannenbergs army and Lii
prandi made f-int, that might have been,
had he succeeded, penetrating attack to-
wards the rear; and, as it was. it did engage
the attention of portion OF the British and
French forces
Thus the allies were to be occupied all
round, while the weak. unintcnched, and
unforiifed point in their position towards
the valley Of the Inkermann, was TO be pene-
trated bv force of great Weight and momen-
tuln. 1t was win lne earliest udWll, tHNel- /
oped in mist, and rain, that the allies hear
ing, without seeing, the movements of the
enemy, reused themselves to comprehen
sion of that which they were to expect
They were attacked in position by troops
converging into narrow and broken ravine,
or meeting of several ravines and here,
notwithstanding all the solidity' as
Crbed to them in the despatch of the Fr"nch
commander, the English soldiers were re-
peatedly driven back. At one time, the bat
lie consisted in the play of artillery upon
the soldiers Of either side at another, IN
sharp conflicts Of small arms, but for the
most part of the time in direct personal en-
counters. where each side tried against the
other its weight, muscular strength, nerve
and resolve. The 5000 English, who were
repeatedly brought forward to meet the at
tack, were the same men, unrtlieved, through
ont the day The narrOwness ot the chan
mel through which the battle ragged, prevent
cd the Russians from using their numbers at
once, but those numbers gave command of
fresh forces in successive relays. So the
conflict continued throughout the day, till
afternoon the contending bodies swayed
backwards aud forwards as reinforcement or
new resolu ion lent the greater impetus to
either side The arrival Of the French first
restored something like aggressive equality
20 tba r;1, Of he allies and a last Eng