Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-12-21
THE BATTLE OF .INKERMANN.


The successive account. which have
reached US Of the above battle, Of the 9Th Of
November before Sevas,opol, have added to
its importance until now it ranks az one Of
the most bloody and obs,instely contested
battles ever fought The correspondent Of
the London Morning Herald gives long
and graphic description from which we
sake extracts.
The battle which lasted nearly oil dsy
commenced as a surprise on the part Of the
Russians, who took advantage Of the dense
fog, 10 steal upon the English ou,po.,.:
THE OPENING OF THE BATTLE.
little sfier 3, on the morning Of Sunday
the 9th, when heavy fog shrouded every
Thing from view. the various garrisons Of
The redoub,s q, Balsklava were reused on.
BY the noise Of large ms.se. Of troops sp-
preaching. This time scouts were ins,ant-
~ sent out, and returned with the in,eli.
genee that large army was moving sgsins,
them. though it was impossible 10 say on
wheI poin, the attack would DO directed
The fog end darkness were SO dense ,h., il,
was quite impossible to Distinguish anything
ten feet below The battery. Yet sill the
noise round The hill continued. have al
ready described the high, steep hill facing
The battery end overlooking it. No one
suspected or believed j. possible that the
ENEMY could &c, guns up this in single
niRhr. 40 the place had been bu! little regard
ell. Yer IL We. from this spot tho, the Rus
slams opened The FIRE from about ten guns,
tnli on the two-gun battery. and The ligh,
m The rear. The instant The cannonade be-
gan, and HE first emotions of utter ss,onish-
men, and surprise were passed. the Ssh
picke', KEEP, close under the earlhwork Of
The battery, and the sho, few over them, do
ing but lillle injury. The enemy had some
wav or other managed TO &c, up their guns
during The night. bu, having 10 point them
~ The dark and fog, took bui q blind aim,
yet nevertheless their shot and shell flew 10
I'll directions for the space of nearly twenty
mnu,cs, while The csnnnnade in rear Of The
line a, Bslsklava was also redoubed, so ths,
it seemed impossible to say which would
Prove the true and which The feint attack.
or whether they were both true or both
fein.s. The latter opinion was adopted by
many. who said shs. The enemy would never
dare attack us in our entertainments, bu,
rather DISTRICT our attention while q sorte
was made from The town upon the trenches.
As il TO confirm This surmlse, the instant the
cannoDade in The rear recommended, ell forts,
b.. Il
opened with q tremendous roar, which seem
cd to shake The earth,
AN AWFUL SCENE.
The scene a, This momen. was awful
enclosed by fire, as fash after flash Ii. up the
foggy air in all directions. The uproar was
perfectly desfening, for our batteries began
TO reply. and both sides firing shell increae-
ed the din two fold. The shower Of these
terrible explosives, which rsined in the camp
like hail, bottles description. No place was
safe from them. They killed men and tore
the tents 10 pieces on places which we had
hitherto considered az utterly GU, Of rsnee.
Every minute or SO you were compelled to
throw yourself upon your face as the terri
bic missile came roaring through The air,
and pitching within few yards, sent It's frag-
nen,s humming over The spo, where you
crouCbed close to the earth. For about ten
minutes The stunning noise, confusion, and
inressan, Bursting Of she'll made the whole
place seem perfectly unesr,hly. The horror
Of the scene was increased BY the obscuri.y
Of The morning. J! was no, six O'Clock, the
darkness and fog were still thick, and through
the heavy cir the brosd red flashes Of The
guns and their tremendous reports seem ten
times louder than ever. For all lhs. could
DE seen or told 10 the contrary, the Russian
batteries seemed within fifty yards Of you
on all sides. or course, the troops remain.
ed under arms; bu did no. allemp, to move;
every one knew that before The real attack
commenced the artillery would cease end
The sharp cracking FIRE OF mu.keuy begin
Un,iI The. was heard, there was no knowing
on which Of The three points the enemv in
tended TO advance. The repor. Of The mus
kets was therefore snxiousIy listened for,
and il soon was herd.
The instant the men Of the SSH we've en-
abled to besr wha. was moving in their own
immediate neigbboshood, The noise of an
immense body Of men advancing was heard
close upon the batteries. The pickle. in
s'anlIy prepared 10 defend the place, and
then in the hour Of need the grea, deicien-
ees in the battery were discovered. Ia the
mrs, place i, had no guns, aud in the second
place no steps were made 10 enable the in
isn'ry to fire over its high parspe,.
RUSSIAN COURAGE IN THE ASSAULT.
The instant the Russians caught sight Of
the battery through The fog, though they
seemed utterly spent by their exertions in
climbing the hill, they rushed forward with
q dash We hardly gave them credi. for
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