Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-12-28
The Battle Field of Inkerman
DREADFUL SCENE.

! From the Correspondence of The London Herald
| On the evening Of the battle, | went
| over the field. think have said. over
and over again. that it was q sight which
could never be described. A considera-
| BILE number. some 500 to 1000, Russians
killed and wounded, were lying among
! orr tents, and here also were many, too
/ many, corpSeS of Zouaves and French in
! flntry of the line. All our wounded have
! been removed, and the wounded of the
enemy were being gathered in. The
| kindness and attention Of our fellows to
! their helpless enemies, was hey all
! praise. They brought them water, got
| knapsacks to put under their heads, and
| borrowed blankets to cover them from
! the raw night air. Here and there small
| grouIs of them stood absorbed IN pity
round some PROSTATE foe, to whom their
| kindness came too late, and who, shot
either through the head or lungs, gasped
out his existencs in painful sobs or ter
minated 1t in horrible CONFUSION, which
made your blood curdle to hear. A lit
tie above the line of tents, was the brow
OF the hill overlooking Inkerman Lights.
Here was the SPOT where the allied artil-
lery engaged that of the enemy after the
retreat, and here the sight was sickening
indeed.
There is nothing so awful as tie spec
taclc of the bodies of those who have
been struck down by round shot or she'll
One poor fellow of the 95th had beed
struck by two "A Founders in the bean
and body. a she'll afterwards burst es
! him, aud tore him to pieces, and it was
| only by tie fragments of cloth. with the
! rcgimcntal buttons adhering, that yo
could tell that the rough bloody mass
which lay III the road, had ever been a
human being. But it is useless to dwell
on these sickenng details suffice it to
say, that here AMONG the carca.ses of
some two hundred killed and wounded
! horses, lay the bodies of our brave Eng
liSh and French artillcrymen all more or
less rrightfully mutilated. Some had
their heads taken off at the neck, as if
with an axe; others their legs gone from
! the hips; others their arms, and others
! again who were hit in the chest or stom-
| ach. were as smashed as if they had been
! crushed III a machine.
But it was not alone the allies who lay
| here; on the contrary, there were ten
| Russian corpses to one of theirs, bnt the
latter were all killed by mnSketry before
he artillery came up. On this spot the
Russians kept dropping shells the whole
night; but their yindictive efforts were
in vain; all who lay in reach of their
missiles had suffered 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 defence of the wall above
lnkerman Valley. Here our dead were
nearly as numerous as the enemy's.-
! Across the path, side by side, lay five
| Guardsmen, who were all killed by one
round shot as they advanced to charge
I the enemy. They lay ON their faces in
the same attitude, with their muskets
/ tightly graspcd 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 Russians, Guardsmen.
and line regiments lay as thick as leaves,
intermiXed with dead and wounded hor-
scs. The latter, with fractured limbs
were then rising and after staggering a
! few steps rolling over among the corpses,
snorting and plunging fearfully Up TO
, the right of the wall was the way to the
. Two-gun battery. The path lay through
thick brushwood, but the path was slip
perry with blood, aud the brushwood bro
ken down and encumbered with tue dead
The scene from the battery was awful
awful beyond description. | stood upon
Its parapet at about at night, and felt
my heart sink at the scene of carnage
around The moon was at its full, and
showed every object as if by the light of
! day. Facing me was the Valley of In
| herman, with the Tchcrnaya, like band
of silver, flowing gracefully between the
hills, which for varied and picturesque
beauty might vie with any part Of the
world
Yet | shall neTer recall the memory
Of inkernan Valley with any but feel
ignS of loathing and horror; for round
the spot from which surveyed the scene.
lay upwards of ) ZOO bodies. Many bad
ly wounded also lay there, and their low
dull means of mortal agony struck with
terrible djstinctnesS upon the ear or
worse still, the hoarse gurgling cry and
vehement struggles of those who were
GonVulSed before they passed away
hound the hin, small groups of men with
hospital stretchers, were searching out
Tor those who still survived; aud others
again, with lanterns, busily turning over
the dead, looking for the bodies of officers
who were known to be killed. but who
had not been found. Here also were En-
glish women, whose husbands had not
returned, hurrying about with lound la
msntations, turning the faces of our dead