The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-12-02

TO have on the fink Of line of cavalry some
squadrons in column, the attack on the flank
being most dangerous.
The only support our light cavalry had
was the reserve of heavy cavalry at a great
distance behind them, the infantry and guns
being far in the rear. There were no squad
and hall in length. At ll:lO our Light
Cavalry Brigade rushed to the front.
The whole brigade scarcely made an effec-
continental armies; and yet it was more
than we could spare. AS they passed to-
ward the front, the Russians opened on them
from the guns in the redoubt on the right
with volleys of musketry and rifles. They
swept proudly past gttering in the morning
sun IN all the pride and splendor Of war.
We could scarcely believe the evidence Of
our senses! Surely that handful of men are
not going TO charge an army in postioni
Alas! il was but too true-their desperate
valor knew no bounds, and far indeed was it
removed from its SO called better part-dis-
erection. They advanced in two lines,
quickenng their pace as they closed toward
the enemy. A more fearful spectacle was
never witnessed than by those who, without
the power to aid, beheld their heroic country
men rushing 10 the arms Of death. At the
distance Of 200 yards The whole line of the
enemy belched forth, from thirty iron mouths,
food OF smoke and flame, through which
Kissed the deadly balls.
| Their flight was marked by instant gaps
in our ranks, by dead men and horses, by
steeds Aging wounded or riderIess across the
plain. The first line is broken, it is Joined
by the second, they never halt or check their
speed an instant; with diminished ranks,
thinned by those thirty guns, which the Rus
slams had laid with the most deadly accuracy,
with a halo Of flashing steel above their
heads, and with cheer which was many a
noble fellows death cry, they flew into the
smoke ofthe batteries, but ere they were
lost from view the plain was strewed with
their bodies and with the carcases of horses.
They were exposed to an oblique fire from
the batteries on the hills on both sides, as
well as to the direct fire of musketry.-
Through the clouds Of smoke we could see
their sabres ASKING as they rode up to the
guns, and dashed between them, cutting
down the gunncrs as they stood
We saw them riding through the guns, as
/ have said; to our delight we saw them re.
turning, alter breaking a column of Russian
infantry. and scattering them like chaff.
when the flank fire of the battery On the hill
swept them down, scattered and broken as
they were. Wounded men and cismountcd
troopers flying toward US told the tale
dem-gods could not have done what we fail
ed TO do. At the very moment when they
were about TO retreat an enormous mass vi
lancers was hurled on their flank. Colonel
Sheweli, of the 9Th Hussars, saw the danger
and rode his few men straight at them, cut
ting his way through with fearful loss. The
other regiments turned and engaged in a
desperate encounter. With courage too
great almost for credence they were break
ing their way through the columns which
enveloped them, when there took place an
act of atrocity without parallel in the modern
warfare Of civilized nations.
/ The Russian gunners, when the storm OF
cavalry passed, returned TO their guns =
They saw their own cavalry mingled with
the troopers who had just ridden over them
and, to the eternrl disgrace OF the Russian
name, the miscreants poured a murderods
voliey OF grape and canister on the mass nj
struggling men and horses, minglng friend
and toe in one common ruin. Ii was as
much as our heavy cavalry brigade could dc
to cover the retreat of the miserable rem
nants Of that band of heroes as they returned
to the place they had so lately Quilted in all
the pride of life. At IL: 80 not British sol.
der, except the dead and dying. was left in
front of these bloody Moscovit guns.
| GRIsr MfLL-We received a few days