The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-02-05
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The Taoors IN THE CnrMRA-The foreixn pa-
pers By the last steamer contain the most deplors.
BILE pictures of the condition Of the British army IN
tne Grimea. The following ID an extract Of Letter
from an assistant surgeon. dated Jan. l. Alter Civ
description OF the suffering Of his sick frends
he ssys:
All ones friends being sick 10 not at ell pleasant
Gu myseif, at present. In excellent health, thank
hn. au oope may remain %. do my best, and
isi,s ~ ~ so.' OF luxury can, but there 10 very
s'o ~ oe got hope shall not again have to live
on eau pork and biscuit for tortnisht A. am per.
u1oeo that, with the wet that sise the officers
sno men oysentery. We lose at ieast 500 and
T smou'a .oink nearly 1000 men week from disease
iney are sent to Scutari and never seem to "a.
urn. s0elA W 10
The huts have arrived at Balaklaya bp, tbera
seems no possibility Of getting them up here. hs
ss much a. we can do to get food and clothing and
we employ all the Turks in carrying shot fascines
&c up to the trenches. the only way they can be
got up.
The arrangement of the Commissariat Depart
menf is altogether sadly deficient
Lord Raglan Is very much disliked out here
ihe treatment of disease is very much simpli6ed
mere, a: We have only about FIVE drugs Most OF
tne lents lie on the ground, with one or ut most
TWO blankets and q eoverlid-they, of course, keep
al tneir clothes on We think ourselves fortunate
we get fresh meat for them three days running ];
tney nave no tea, arrowroot or any other little
sning thought Indispensable in a London hospital.
10 oay, for great treat, we managed to make
some oatmeal porridge for them. Nov fancy with
In this state having to treat bad cases dys-
entery, fever, frost-bit gunshot wounds, and the
lke--t is all but impossible, you will say-it is
certainly most disheartening- especially, too, when
you Consider we have no nurses, and most OF the
men are covered with vermin
lake lime juice every day to make up for the
loss of vegetables, which l feel very much, and
winch 1t is agreat sh anne have not got. as there
are potatoes and turnips to be obtained within IL
aaf Rfp fnE1 n kha~1
troops world ofgood.
The following loud grumbliDg is from regimen
tai officer:
December % to 27-I can scarcely write, my i'm.
gers are SO cold and don't wonder that the Rus
sian officers are said sometimes to pull off their toes
with their boots. There are one or two things for
which our generals deserve TO be well punished -
One ls, expecting pickets to stand uncovered such
weather as this-everlasting rain and snow-when
common prudence might have ordered huts to be
made Tor them, aud week would hut all of them
but no, nothing is done. The generals have all had
houses built Tor themselves, but the poor men who
are stationed out uight and day, every third day.
may do without. There ia also great deal of
grumbing because Lord Raglan has ordered por-
tions OF the town to be spared part of the usual
temporizing policy, and among other parts the
arsenal so that directly gun is Injured the Rus
SLAMS have 1t repaired in a few hours. We areaso
now making very advanced work. without any
approach to it. aud the men are quietly shot down
by Russian ridemen as they come and 60 to 1t on
lnkermann heights Yesterday four men were
thus killed. The state of affairs at present is in
stata qUo and is, as the Times justly remarks no
longer question of taking Sebastopol. but of ga
wing ourselves-uniess, indeed, which s not very
likely. Government sends us enough reinforcements
to cope with the powerful armies collecting in our
rear. An average of about six men are taken into
hospital daily from my own regiment, and an off
Ger OF another regiment told that half their last
draught were under ground before q fortnight
passed over their heads here. Would that they had
landed US here last summer with 100000 effective
bayonets, and we might have wintered In Sebasto-
pol As 1t Is, however, we must keep up our spirits,
and work AWAY like men