Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-07-26
BEroRE SEvAsroPoL, June 20.

ed to him; and, indeed, Gen. Pehssier
expressly says that the trace was grant
ed to the Russian General on his reiter-
ated request. 1t is no wonder, then,
that the Russians were rather chary of
granting US an srmistice. when they
had no occasion to go outside their lines
for their dead, dying or Wounded
Somehow or other the rumor got abroad
that there would be an armfstice early
in the day, and we hoisted white flag
in the forenoon, but there was no such
emblem of a temporary peace displayed
by the Russians.
Our batteries and riflemen ceased fir
ing, and the Russians crowded the tops
of the parapets ofthe Redan and of the
Round Tower (Malakof) batteries, and
did not harass us by any FIRE, but of
course it was dangerous to go out in
front of the lines till they had hoisted
the white flag also. The advanced
trenches were filed with officers and SOL
diers eager to find the bodies of their
poor comrades, but they could not stir
out of the parallels. They waited pa
tiently and sadley for the moment when
friendships last melancholy Office could
be performed. 1t was very hot day,
and of all the places in the word where
heat displays its utmost power, trench
before Sevastopol is the most intolera-
bic.
Every moment anxious eyes were
turned to the huge walls of earth before
the Round Tower and behind the abat-
tbs of the Redan, in the hope of seeing
the answering flag, but our own was
the only one in view, and the French
were still firing away on our left at the
Russian works. 1t was evident that
something was wrong, and it was whis-
pered that the Russians had refused our
application for an armistice. Boats
were at last seen to leave the roads of
Sevastopol, and to meet boats from the
fleet at the entrance, and it became
known that the Russians had acceded to
an armistice, and that it was to take
place at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. To
pass the weary time away, there was
nothing to do but to watch the Russians
at work repairing their batteries-labors
which they continued during the armis-
tice subsequently--and to make out the
bodies which lay scattered about in front
of the Redan and Malakoff.
1t was agonizing to see the wounded
men, who we're lying there under a
broiling sun, parched with excruciating
thirst, racked with fever, and agonized
with pain-to behold them waving their
caps family, or making signals towards
our lines, over which they could see the
white flag waving, and not be able to
help them. They Law where they fell,
or had scrambled into the holes formed
by shells; and there they had been for
thirty hours-oh, how long and how
dreadful in their weariness! An officer
told me that one soldier who was close
to the abattis when he saw few men
come out of an embrasure, raised him
self on his elbow, and, fearing he should
be unnoticed and passed by, raised his
cap on a stick and waived it till he fell
back exhausted. Again he rose, and
managed to tear off his shirt, which he
agitated in the air till his strength fail
ed him.
His face could be seen through a
glass, and my friend said he never could
forget the expression of resignation and
despair with which the poor fellow at
last abandoned his useless efforts, and
folded his shirt under his head to await
the mercy of Heaven. Whether he
was alive or not when our men went out
cannot say; but five hours of thirst,
fever and pain, under a fierce sun,
would make awful odds against him.
The red coats lay sadly thick over the
ground in front Of the abattis of the Re-
dan, and blue and grey coats were seat
tered about or lay in piles in the rain
courses before the Mslakoff. | could
see, too, that the white ports streaks Of
the Russian vessels were blackened by
their broadsides on the morning of the
18th. .r
English and French are mixed togeth-
er. l saw in one place two of our men
apart from the rest with melancholy fa-
ces. "What are you waiting here for?"
'''To go out for the Colonel, sir" was
the reply. "What colonel?" "Why,
Colonel Yea, to be sure, SIR said the
good fellow, who was evidently surpris-
ed at my thinking there could be any
other colonel in the world. And indeed
the light division will feel his loss. Un-
der occasional brusqueness Of manner
he concealed a most kind heart, and a
more thorough soldier, one more devot-
ed to his men, to the service and to the
country, never fell in battle than Lacy
Yea. / have reason to know that he
felt his great services and his arduous
exertions had not been rewarded as he
had right to expect.
RENEWED DISTURBANCES IN LONDON.
From the mails of the Arego we make
the following extracts in regard to the
late riots in London:
Another demonstration against Lord
Robert Grosvenor's Sunday trading bill
took place in Hyde Park on Sunday,
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