Southern shield., 1855-01-06

men and line regiments lay thick as leaves, ,iDtermixed with dead and wound ed horses. The latter, with fractured limbs, were now and then rising, and after staggering few steps, rolling over among the corpses, snorting and plunging Hearfully. Up to the right of the wall was the way to the Two gun Battery. The path lay through thick brushwood, but the path was slippery with blood, and the brushwood was broken down and encountered with the dead.
 The scene from the battery was aW- Unlawful beyond description. I Istood upon the parapet at aboutnine atniSht, and felt my heart sink as 1 Igazed upon the scene pf carnage around. The moon was at its full, and showed eve " object as if by the light of day Facing me vas the valley of lnker- mann, with inc Chernaya like band of silver flowing gracefully between the hills, witch, for varied and pictu- resquo beauty, might view with any part of the world. Yet l shall never recall the memory of Inkermann Val
 ley with any hgsFQ6lings of loathing and horroif for around the spot from which I surveyed the scene, lay up- wards of 5000 bodies. Many badly wounded also lay there; and their low, dull moans of mortal agony struck with horrible distinctness upon the ear, or worse still, the hoarse gurgling cry and vehement struggles of those who were convulSed before they passed away Around the hill small groups of men with hospital stretchers were searching out for those who still survived; and others, again, with lanterns, busily turning over the dead, looking for the bodies of officers who were known to be killed, butwho had not been found. Here also weic English women whose husbands had not returned, hurrying about with loud lamentations, turning the faces of GIT dead to the moonlight, and eagerly seeking for what they feared to find These latter were far more to be ptied than the inanimate forms of those who lay slaughtered a. round. The ambulances, as fast as they came III, received their load of sufferers, andeyen blankets were en- ployed to con-ey the wounded to the rear.
 Outside hebattery the Russians lay two and three deep. Inside, the place was literally full with bodies of Rus sian Gnard>mn, 55th and 20th. The fine, tall forms of our poor fellows could be distinguished at a glance, tho | the grey greatcoats, stained with blood <, rendered them alike externally. They lay as they fell, in heaps; sometimes our men over three or four Russians,
 and sometimes Russian over three or four of ours. Some had passed away with a smile on their faces, and seem
 ed as if asleep; others were horribly
 cOntorted, and with distended eyes and swollen features, appeared to have died
 in agony, butiefying to the last. Some lay as if prpared for burial, and as though hands of relatives had arranged their mangledlimbs, while others, again were in almost startling positions, half standing or lneeling, clutching their weapons, ,or dlawing a cartridge. Many lay with both their hands extended to- ward the sky, as if to avert a blow, or utter a prayer, while others had a ma Egnant scowl of mingled fear and ha- tired, as if, indeed, they died despair ing. The moonlight imparted an as- pect of unnatural paleness, to their forms; and, as the cold, damp wind swept around the hills, and waved the boughs above their upturned faces, the shadows gave a horrible appearance of vitality; and t seemed as if the dead were laughing, and about to rise.- This was not the case on one spot, but
 all over the bloody field.