Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1854-11-07

skirmishers; they laato clambor do rocky |
sleeps Tended by swarlns Of sharp shoot
ers; they had to gain most difficult position
with quickness and alacrity. Delay would
have been fatal; slowness Of movement would
have lost us the battle, for without the
French on the heights on our right, we must
have been driven across the Alma. as they
would have becn swept into the valley had
failed in carrying our batteries. Their en-
ergctic movement, tn ir rapid flame ike
spread from crag to crag, their ccasclcss flu
siade Of the deadly rifle. were all astonish-
ing, and paralized the enemy completely.
We perhaps could never have made such a
rapid advance, or have got over 90 much
ground in the same time.
THE REGIMENTS THAT SUFFERED MOST.
The loss fell principally on the It'll, Odd.
and 80 Regiments, and on the 3O.h 55tll. and
95th Regiments, which formed the right
brigade Of the 81 division. In fact the.a
regiment were directly opposed to the trc-
mendous fire OF the principal earthwork bat
| terry, and came under range almost the mo.
men. the advance was sounded. The R;fes
got over the stream in such loose order that
they We're WONDERFULLY preserved in sn;te of
the tremendous storm of shot that ratified
over them. Col Lawrence had his horse k;ll-
ed under hm. Maj Norcott's charger rece;-
we'd no less than FIVE mortal wounds. When
the Ith got out of the stream, Col. Yea found
himself and his men at once under rance of
the battery before they could form. and were
obliged to advance pell NELL against the
guns.
Poor Monck and Hare soon fell: the colors
were lost for 4 time, for thrice did the enc
mics shot st,ikc down the officers who carried
them; but Capt. Pierson, Aid de- Camp to
Sir g. Brown. passed the last poor fellow
who bore them, and he was enabled to res
tore them to the gallant colonel. 3 They arc
torn to pieces with shot. The 33d who
crossed the stream first, headed by Colonel
Blake, were moved down, bv round after
round of shot and case. The Major. (Gough)
Capt. Fitzgerald, Lieuts. Wallis, and Worth
ington. Ensigns Stree and Greenwood. fell
wounded in few moments; Lieut.. Montapu
was killed on the spot.
THRILLING SCENE.
Little more than $4,000 Of our infantry
were actually engaged with the enemy! Two
divisions never fired shot. the victory was
won by the Guards, Highlanders light and
I'd divisions opposed to at least 10000 Rus
sians,, and the number Of the French who
disposed of the other 10000 Of the Russian
army was in like proportion with tho bulk of
their army.
The critical moment was at the advance Of
the first division, and that advance was a
sight never to be forgotten.
AZ they marched up the hill the lines of the
blGck bear skins were barely wavernc they
were nearly as stright as if on parade. and
the Light division complained that the men
OF the Guards were losing time in dressing
up as if on parade ground, when they should
have been supporting the regiments exposed
to such crushing fire.
While he guards were running up they fell
fast, and at last the Duke anxious at the
loss OF one regiment seemed inclined to retire
his men only for one moment to reform but
was devIrtcd from so doing by the advice of
SIR Colin Cambell. They continued their
advance therefore swallowed up in smoke.
and rent through every instant by shot. and
after momcntary check rush ID into the
battery.
/ The Grenadiers and Scots fusilecrs con-
tend eagerly for the honor of being the first
IN, ana still more eagerly for the honor of
capturing the beautiful brass gun.
DREADFUL sIGHT--NEARLY TEN THOUSAND
DEAD BODIES.
1t was terrible and sicSen.n NC sight to %
over the battle field. Sill deprived of nv
horse by chance shot, l rode about to ascer.
tain, as far as possible, the loss of our friends
and in doing so was often brought to a
stand still by the difficulty of getting through
the pics of wounded Russians. mingled too
often with our own poor soldiers. The hills
OF Greenwich Park in fair time are not more
densely covered with human beings than
were the heights Of the Alma with dead and
dying. On these bloody mounds fell 2I96
English Off sers and men, and upward of
5000 Russians; while The western extremity
was covered with the bodies of 400 gallant
Frenchmcn, and Of more than 5000 Of their
foes. A
HOW Long THE FIGHT LASTED.
When Lord Raglan, and his staff and the
Duke OF Cambridge rode round to the ton of
the hill, the troops cheered them with =
thrilling eifect-a shout Of vctory-wbich
can never lie forgotten. The enemy who
were flying in the distance, might almost
have hesrd its echoes as it rolled amono tho
hills. Our mon had indeed done the work
well, for the action, whic: commenced At l.o5
ON orr part, was over about 4P. M: in fact
the actual close continuous fighting did not
last two hours.
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