The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-12-20
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BATTLE O. llEERMANNq
rrHftIBIlE SLAUGHTER
MIAarfffra. Mnndav.

MAAsEILGEs, Monday.
-fhe Tehm1gus aFrived ms HorHtug II b
O'Clock A. NJ, and the Government tnessen.
ger, with dispatches, LEFT BY the 0eU'eloch
train for Paris.
The dates from constautinOple are Of the
10th.
On the morning of the 9Th. the Russians,
81, 900 strong, attacked the right Of the Eng
lish positions, towards Inkermann-- The
English batteries were taken and retaken
several times.
At noon the Russians made sortie from
Sebastopol against the French positions,
but were repulsed. li'- .r &. t1ilair e'rA
The Russians were also ultimately repuls.
ed towards Inkermann, alter bloody bat
tie, which lasted eight hours. e...,
Their loss was 5000 killed and wound
| ed u 100 e. aLl4Gt .- -srt 10 - -7-Stt 'i'i
The English loss was also great. -Four
Generals--CATHcART, STRANGwAYs, GoL-
DIE and ToRRENs--were killed, and four
wonnded-BRowE, BENrINcK, BULLER, and
ADAMS. % ~ ''l ''..'4
Thirty.eight English officers were killed
96 were wounded, ahdtwo were missing.
442 rank and file were killed, ], ,760 woun.
ded, and loo missing. ..st,,..5 ......, ...
The French had L General killed, 9
wounded, ID officers killed, and 81 wound.
ed.8 81 .agsa.l NarGTg aly sga roc.t.E!
The English Guards alone lost 90 off,
GERS. a., ...l ..,.- ......,.... ,..,... .,,.. .
The Russians fired on our wounded, as
well as on the detachments who were sent
out to bury the dead on the 7th. y. '.'H.A .'
General CANROBERT was wounded.
The Russians are pouring in large mass.
es from the north. We require further re.
Inducements instantly.
A correspondent Of the London Times
writing under date OF November 7th, gives
this description of that bloody field: q b p
Yesterday l again waAt over the field
| can add little to my previous account o.
it. The ire-locks, nearly all Russians, ly.
ing about are innumerahle. l cannot esti
mate their loss with any accuracy. The
ground is thickly covered with dwarf oaks
and the dead and wounded are lying on bill
and valley even down to the plain. 1t will
be some time before they are all discovered
Many of the wounded were not then brought
in, and the troops are SO hard worked thai
some time will elapse before it can be done
and all the dead buried; and the dead hor.
ses are SO numerous that it is no easy mat
ter to get them even out of the camp. Ma,
ny of the wounded were dying for want o.
assistance; they had not even had drop o.
water, and their moaning was horrible. Il
could not be helped, for there was no one tc
give it to them, and water is scarce, ano
has to be brought from great distance
The Russians should Gas any civilized nation
would have done) have sent in flag O
truce and surgeons, and asked permission tt
attend to their wounded and bury their dead
but that would have been acknowledging
their defeat. .r..
| There is no defeat that our force is toe
small for so great an undertaking as the cap
ture OF Sebastopol, to do it properly. 10000
more men would have carried the place
while the battle was going on, and finishet
the business; as it was, both our fanks were
nearly turned, and we might have had tn,
worst Of it had it not been for the valor o
officers and men of both English and Frencl
armies. AS it is, it may yet be long befor,
we succeed, but succeed we must. Drought
are coming out from England, but insteat
Of sending every available man, as they
should do, they only send out driblets. Fo
instance, one subaltern and 80 men to tn,
95th, once 1000 strong, and now havin.
about six officers and 200 men. We really
deserve to lose.