Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-11-04

of the situation. He asked if it would be possible
to get couple of gunsto bear on these masses
The reply was Yes" and an sEtllsEy u 0 tg6
| guns to fire on the Russian Squares The first shot
| missed, bot the next, and the next and the next
cut through the ranks SO clcanly, and so keenly,
that clear lane cohid be seen for moment through
the square. After few rounds the square became
broken, wavefed to and fro broke, and fed over the
brow the hil leaving behind it six OF seven dis
tnct hhes of dead lying as close as possible TO cach
otfef, making the passage of the fatal messengers.
l. This act relieved our infantry of deadly incu-
bus and they continued their magnificent and fear
full progress up the hill The Duke encouraged
his men by voice and example, and proved himself
worthy of his proud command and of the Royal
race from which he comes. "Highlandcrs, said
Sir c. Campbell, they came to the charge,
Don't pull a trigger till you're within yard ofthe
Russiansl" They charged, and we'll they obeyed
their cheans wish; Sir Colin had his horse shot I'M
der him, but his men took the battery at a bound.
The Russians rushed out and left multitudes of
dead behind them. The Guards had stormed the
right of the battery the Highanders got into
the left and it is said the Scots Fusileer Guards
were the first to enter.
The second and lghtdivision crowned the heights.
The French turned the guns on the hill against the
hying masses, which the cavalry in vain tried to
cover. A few faint struggles from the scattered in
fantry, few rounds of cannon and musketry, and
the enemy fed to the southeast, three generals,
three guns zoo prisoners and 600 wounded be-
hind them. The battle of the Alma won. 1t
is with loss of nearly 5000 killed and woun-
ded on our side. The list will appear in few days,
The Russians retreat was covered by their caVal-
~, but if we had had an adequate force we could
have captured many guns and mnltitudes of pris-
onerS.
from the Correspondence of the London Times Oct H.
THE FIELD AFTER THE BATTLE
HEIGHTS OF ALMA, Sept 81.
1t was terrible and sickening sight to so over
the battlefield Till deprived of my horse by
chance shot, rode about to ascertain as far as pos
stble the loss of our friends, and doing so was Of
ten brought to a stand-Still by the difficulty OF
getting through the piles of wounded Russians, min
ged too often with own poor soldiers. The hills
of Greenwich park in fair time not more dense
~ covered with human beings than were the heights
of Alma with dead and dying. On these bloody
mounds fell 1856 English officers and men, and up
wards of 8, 900 Russians, while their western ex-
tremty covered with the bodies of ] 400 gall
liant Frcnchmcn and of more than 8 900 of their
foes.
When Lord Raglan and his staff and the Duke of
Cambridge rode round to the top of the hill the
troops cheered them with thrilling effect-a shout
of victory which never can be forgotten. The enc
my, who were flying in the distance, might almost
have heard its echoes as it rolled among the hills
Our men had, indeed, done their work well, for the
action, which common ced at 25 our part, was
over about p NJ. In fact, the actual close con-
tnuous fighting did not last two hours!
The Russian regiments engaged against us, Judg-
ing from the numbers the caps and buttons of
the dead and wounded, were the llth, 18TH 10th,
18th, 18th, S1st 32d, and some of the Imperial
Guard The Russian regiment consists of four bat
lions, and each battalion may be said to be 65O
strong. The soldiers were mostly stout, strong men,
Several of the regiments 32d and 10th, for exam
pic, wore black leather helmet, handsomely noun
ted with brass, and having brass cone on the top,
with hole for the reception of a TUT, feather or
plume; others wore simply white linen fOraging
cap. They all dressed in long drab coats with
brass buttons, bearing the number of the reg ment
These coats fitted loosely gathered in at the
back by small strap and button, descend to the
ANGLES, and seemed stout comfortable garments,
though the cloth in texture; the trous-
ers of coarse blue stuff thrust inside pair OF
Wellington boots, open at the top to admit of their
being comfortably tucked down: the boots were
stout well made, and servccable Their knapsacks
astonished our soldiers
On opening them, each found to contain the
dress uniform coatee Of the man, blue green with
white facing, and slashes like own pair of
clean drawers, clean shirt, pair of clean socks,
aPair of stout mits, case containing good pair of
SCISSORS marked Spain, excellent penknlte with
one large blade, of Russian manufacture, a ball OF
Irvine, roll of leather, wax, thread, needles and
pins, hair brush and comb, small looking glass,
razor, strop. and soap. shoe brushes and backing.
The general remark of our men was that the Rus
SLAMS were very "cean soldiers )" and certainly the
men on the field had white fair skins to justify the
expression. Each nan had a loaf of dark brown
bread, of a taste and disagreeabe odor in his
knapsack, and linen ROLL containing quantity of
brown coarse stuff, broken up into Jumps and large
grains, which is crushed biscuit hard granulated
bread prepared with oil.
This, we were told by the prisoners, was the sole
foot of the men. They eat the bread with onions
and oil; the powder is Preserve ration and if they
march they may be for days without food, and re-
main hungry till they get fresh loaves and more
"breadstuff" 1t is perfectly astounding to think
they can keep together such diet-and yet they
are strong, muscular men enough. The surgeons
remarked that their tenacity of life was very re-
markable.-Many Of them lived with wounds calcu-
lated to destroy two or three ordinary men. saw
god nj he
fight. He was shot right through the head, and
the head and from the front of the skull. saw
with my own eyes the wounded man raise his hand,
wipe the horrible mass from his brow, and proceed
to struggle down the hill towards the water.
Many of the Russians shot in three or four
places; few of them had only one wound They
seemed to have general idea that they would be
murdered possibly, they had been told no quarter
would be given, and several deplorable events took
place in consequence. AS our men were passing by
two or three of them were shot stabbed by men
lying on the ground and the cry raised that
1.-THE wounded Russians" were firing men.
There is story, indeed, that officer was severe
ly injured by man to whom he was in the very
act of administering succor he lay in agony on
the field be this it may there was at one time
near chance of massacre taking place, but the
men were soon controlled, and confined themselves
to the pillage which always takes place on battle
field.
One villain, with red coat on his back, l regret
to say, saw go up to wounded Russian who was
rolling on the earth in the of the 7th regiment,
and, before we could say word he discharged his
rifle right through the wretched creatures brains.
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