Southern shield., 1855-01-06
Scene After the Battle.

The following vivid, startling, and awful description of the field after the battle of Inkermann, is from the cor respondence of the London Morning Herald:
 On the evening of the battle, I went over the field; l think have said, over and over again, that it was sight that could never be described. A conside- rable number, some 800 to 1, ,000 Rus sians killed and wounded were lying among our tents, and here also were many, too many, corpses of Zouavas and French infantry of the line. All our wounded have been removed, and the wounded of the enemy were being gathered in. The kindness and atten- tion of our fellows to their helpless en- emies were beyond all praise. They brought them water, got knapsacks to put under their heads, and borrowed blankets in which to cover them from the raw night air: here and there, small groups of them stood absorbed in pity round some prostrate foe, to whom their kindness came too late, and who, shot either through the head or lungs, gasped out his existence in painful sObs, or terminated it in a horrible con- vulsion which made your blood curdIe to hear.
 A little above the line of the tents was the brow of the hill overlooking lnkermann Lights. Here was the spot where the allied artillery engaged that of the enemy after the retreat, and here the sight was sickening indeed There is nothing so awful as the spec tacle of the bodies of those who have been struck down byround shot or shell. One poor fellow of the 95th had been struck by two 24 pounders in the head and body. A shell afterward burst on him and tore him to pieces, and it was only by the fragments of cloth, with the regimental buttons adhering, that you could tell that the rough, bloody mass which lay in the road had ever been human being. But it is useless to dwell on these sickening details; suf- flee to say that here, among the car casses of some 200 killed and wound ed horses, lay the bodies of our brave English and French artillerymen, all more or less frightfully mutillated. - 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 stomach, were literally as smashed as if they had been crush ed in machine.
 But it was not alone the allies who lay here; on the contrary, there were ten Russian corpses for one of theirs; but the latter were all killed by musket- " before the artillery came up. On this spot the Russians kept dropping shells the whole night, but their vindic- tive 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 Sebastepol be- tween heaps of Russian dead, you come. to the spot where the Guards had been compelled to retire from the defense of the wall above Inkermann Valley Here our dead were nearly as numer- ous as the enemy's. Across the path, side by side, lay five guardsmen who were killed by one round shot as they advanced to charge upon the enemy. They lay on their faces, in the same attitude, with their muskets tightly grasped 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 toes. Beyond this, the Russian guards