The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-11-22
Extracts from the Crime. Correspondence
FROM ALMA TO sEBAsToPoL.

Sxiraets from the Crimea corresPondenee Of
sss the London Times.
FROM ALMA TO sEBAST0P0L.
CHOLERA IN THE CAMP.
Many men died of cholera last night.
My sleep was disturbed by the groans of
he dying, and on getting up in the MORN
ing I found that the corpse of a Russian
lay close to the tent in.Nhich l had been
permitted to rest. He was not there
when We retired to rest, so hat the
~retehed creature, who had probably
been wandering about without food up
on the hills ever since the battle, must
have craWled down towards our fires AID
there expired in the attempt to reach
them; several men had died close to our
tent during the night.
THE MARCH AFTER THE BATTLE.
Last night orders we're sent round the
divisions to be prepared for marching af-
ter=daybreak, and early this morning we
left the blood-stained heights of the Al
ma-a name that will be ever memorable
in our history. Soon after dawn the
French assembled all their drums and
trumpets on the top of the highest of
the hills they carried, aid a wild -four
ish1 and roll, repeated again and again,
and brokcn.by peals of sound from the
bugles of the infantry, celebrated their
victory ere they departed. 1t was spirit
ed, stirring, and thrilling music, and its
effect, as it swelled through the darkness
of early morning down over the valley,
can ~ be forgotten.
H DYING AND THE DEAF.
But what is that gray mass on the
plain, which seems settled down upon it
almost without life or motion ? Now
and then. indeed, an arm may be seer
waved aloft, OF a man raises himself for
a.moment, looks, around, and then lies
down again. Alas that plain is cover
ed with the wounded Russians still
Nearly 60 long hours have they passed
in agony on the ground, and now, with
but little hope Of help or suceor more,
We must leave them as they lie. Seven
hundred and fifty wounded men are still
upon the ground, and we can do nothing
for them. Their wounds have been
bound and dressed aud now, unable as
we are to take them along with US, we
must depart.
THE SOLDIERS EvELs.
A little bottle of prrssic acid lay so
inyitingly near a.bex of bonbons that l
knew It would be irresistible to the FIRST
hungry private who had a taste for al
monde, and Isaccordingly poured out
the contents to prevent the possible ca,
tastrophe- Our men and horses were
- -1r.ll.D -
ne pushed on to Eskel. and established
.0aEselves in house which had belonged
to . Russian officer of rank-at least
many traces of the presence of one was
VISIBLE. Every house and villa of the
place was q similar scene to that which
/ have IN vain tried to describe. The
better the class of the residences the
more complete and pitiable the destruc-
tion.
COP s&E THE QUEEN
Grand pianos and handsome pieces of
furniture covered with silk anddamasked
velvet, REM to pieces by brutal violence,
we're found in more than one house, but
M Of the instruments retained enough of
its vital organs to breathe out God save
the Queen from its lacerated brass
ribs, and it was made to do SO according
ly-aye under the very eye of a rigid
portrait of His Imperial Majesty, the
Gar, which hung on the wall above
These portraits of the Autocrat were
not uncommon in the houses-nearly as
common as pictures of saints with gilt
and silver glories around their heads.
WHAT THE RUSSIANS DID.
From the people who thus returned
we heard that the Russians had arrived
in the Katcha in rather q fatigue8 and
dispirited condition the night of the bat
lie of Alma, and had taken up their
position in the villages and In the neigh
boring houses. At IL o'clock the same
night there was an alarm, however, that
the English and French were coming.
Up got the whole army of Russians
pellmell, and snatching up whatever they
could, they rushed off in disorder across
the country. A part of the army went
towards Bakshiserai. They were said
to consist of about 10000, and to be
under the command of Menschikof In
person. The rest proceeded direct to
Sebastspol and entered il in much dis
order.
THE MARCH ON BALAKLAvA.
And now commenced q march which
deserves to be classed among the bold
est movements ever made by any mill
tary commander In the face of an enemy.
The whole army marched towards the
s. e. on the Black River, and SO they
were obliged to pass through a 'thickly
wooded country, intersected by narrow
lanes winding up and down the hills, the
troops were necessarily in some disorder
and had the enemy possessed the small
est enterprise, they might have inflicted
on MS severe loss, and caused great an
noyance by q spirited attack on oul
flank, while we were rounding the head
of the harbor.
NARRo ESCAPES
Our march was by different routes
the artillery proceeding by q Difficult