The American patriot. (Clinton, La.) 1854-1???, 1855-02-21
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DISPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN
BEFORE SEvAsropoI, Jan. 6.-My Lord Duke:
The weather has been SO bad since wrote to
your Grace on the I'd instant that have not oeen
able to disembark the 39th, with view Of en-
camping the regiment and it still! remains on
board the Golden Fleece in the harbor The
ground is thickly covered with snow, though not
yery deep. All my endeavors arc directed to the
speedy Decentralization and getting up OF the nuts,
which have now arrived in considerable numbers,
and the establishment of the depot OF provisions,
which alluded to in my last dispatch, near head
quarters, which am now enabled to do with the
assistance of the 18th and goth regiments. The
first arc encamped near Balakava, and the last
are still sleeping on board the Golden fleece
There has been q movement on the part OF the
enemy. enclose return Of the casualties that
have arisen up to the 4th inst
have, &c. kAuLAN.
His Grace, the Duke of Newcastle.
LETTER FROM A CORPORAL OF THE RIFLE
| BRIGADE
hardly know how to begin to give you an idea
of our present sufferings; for suffer we do daily
from the effect Of the cold. Even now, while
am writing, l am persisted with cold, sitting in the
mighty deserts us now in the trying time. We
are up to our knees in snow, and you may depend
we feel it going into the trenches for - or IA
hours; and If it is your turn for the advanced
trenches, you have not chance of jumping about
to keep yourself warm for fear 80 FOUNDER or a
rife ball from the skrmishers in their holes under
the batteries running after you with message to
halt It would cut you to the heart to see the re-
mains of our once fine regiment. We come out
here about 1000 strong, and now VIC can hardly
muster 100 men for duty. The other night it
showed terribly, we found about every man We
could muster at hals-past four in the evening" our
usual time of mounting in the trenches, and they
had hardly marched off before news came that
half of the party had fallen down quite helpless
with pains, so that the sick at home were COM
PEELED to turn out and carry our poor comrades to
camp.
LETTER FROM AN OFFICER.
The men and officers have the pluck Of the
devil, but this sickness floors the strongest, and
saps all his energies. Death on the battlefield is
nothing. You know your enemy, and no man
says a word; but this unseen, unsatisfed enemy
disease makes the stoutest heart stop when
its fearful ravages Notwithstanding while men
remain they will do their work and such an idea
as not taking Sevastopol-such an idea as giving
up the Objects never heard Of One but sets
once teeth the harder and faces the hard fact the
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as tell my men when they say thing can't be
done Can't" There is no such word as can't
for MS out here. The word for us is must and
that alone is to be used in its place." do wish
they would let us get at those Russians. l have
managed to rig up stove in my tent of night
am about the only one, believe; all the others
tried, and said they could not, it smoked so ; how
ever mine does not, and it is burning away cheeri
ly, and is such blessing to ones feet, and have
a hot iorum of chocolate singing away on it to
take before turn in. My Greek tweed is invalu-
able here. ! wish had my buffalo robe. The
guns either side have been quite still for the
last two days during the bitter cold, and now, as
if to make up for lost time, they blazing away
in fine style. There is report to-day that the
town is abandoned by all but the troops, but dc
not believe it, but on the contrary think they arc
getting large supplies of hay, &C., in from the
North
RUSSIAN LOSS IN THE CRIMEA.
The following is said to be the total number Of
Russians put hors de combat from the 2Sth Of
September exclusive consequently of the defeat
of the Alma) to the 9th of December including
prisoners taken, and deaths from disease or other
causes not resulting from wounds:
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