Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-10-17
THE CANADA'S MAILS
Detais of the Storming Ct Sebastopol &c
&c.

The mails by the steamer Canada, are at hand.
The English papers are chiefly filled with details
of the bloody capture of the south side OF Scbas-
topol. We make the following account prInc.
paly from the correspondence of the London
Times:
TIE DAY OF MISUNDERSTANDING or THE AtII-
Ed COMMANDERS AND THEIR TROOPS.
On september 3 the weather changed suddenly.
This morning it became bitterly cold. A biting
wind right from the north side of Sebastnpol blew
intolerahe clouds ofharsh dust into our faces.
The sun was obscurcd; the sky was OF lcaden
wintery gray. Early in the morning, strong
force of cavalry, under the command of Colonel
Hodge, was moved up to the front, and formed II
chain of scntres in front of Cathcart's hill and
all along our lines. No person was allowed to
pass this line unless he wus stalfoffcer or
was provided with pass. Another line Of sen
tries in the rear of them was intended to stop
straggcrs and idlers from lalaklava, and the OBJ
ect in view probably 10 prevent the Rus
slams gathering any ntlmation ot our attack from
tho usual accumulation of people ON the lookout
hills.
Gen. Pelssier. during the night, collected
about 30 600 men in and about the Mamelon, 10
form the stormng column for the Malakolf and
Little Redan, and IN provide the necessary re
serves. The French were reinforced by 1000
Sardnnns, who marched up from the Tchcrnaya
were to attack the Maakoii ut noon, and, soon
as their ntiack began, that we were to assault
the Rcdan. 1t was, rs have said, bitter cold
day, and soldier would have been astonished at
the aspect of the British generals as they viewed
the assault. The Commander Chief General
! Simpson, sat in the trenches with his nose and
eyes just facing the cold and dust, and his cloak
! drawn up over his his head, to protect him
against both.
!
A few minutes before IL O'Clock the French
like swarm of bees issued forth from their trench
es close to the doomed Maakoif, swarmcd up it,
face and were through it's embrasures in tn,
twinkling of an eye. They crossed the sever
metres of ground which separated them from tht
enemy at few bounds they drifed ms light,
and quickly Us autumn leaves before the win,
battalion after battalion into the emhraS
and in minute or two after the head of their col
umn issued from the ditch the tricolor was float
ing over the Korniloif hastion. The muskctr
was very feeble at first indeed, our allies tool
the Russians quite by surprise, and very few Q
the latter were in the Malakotf; but they 500
recovered themselves, and from II o'clock II
past in the evening the French had to meet an
defeat the repeated attempts of the enemy t
regain the work and the Little Redan. Whel
weary of the fearful slaughter of his men. VIII
lay in thousands over the exterior of the work
the Muscovite general. despairing of success
withdrew his exhausted legons, and PREPARED
with admirable skill, to evacuate the place
THE ENGLISH ATTACK ON THE REpAN-NuMBF
OF MEN ENGAGED.
Now it will be observed that, where we atiacl
ed the Redan with two divisions only, porto
of each being virtually in reserve, and not eng
ged in the affair at all, the French made the
assault on the Malukoff with four divisions of Il
second corpse darmee, the first and fouth division
forming the storming columns, and the third N
fifth being the support with reserves of lt'O'
men. The French had, probably, not less thu
10000 men in the right attack on the 9TH of Sc
2 tember The divisional orders for the 2d di,
D sion were very much the same as those for Il
light division. The covering party consisted
100 men in the Sd Bluffs, under Capt john Lew
who highly distinguished himself, aud 100 of 4
Second Battalion OF the hife Brigade | belle
under the command of poor Captain Harmon
The scaling ladder party consisted 100 OF the
Bluffs, under Captain Maude whose gallant
was very conspicuous throughout the affair, in IA
diton to the l60th OF the 9th, under the gala
and ainented Welsford. The part of the for
Il of the Second division consisted of 26o OF the
= Butts, $40 of the 4ist (Welsh,) 200 cf the 6
= and n working party of 100 men of the llst I
rest of Wndham's Brigade, consisting OF the A.
aud 49th, were in reserve, together with Warner
! Brigade of the same division. of which the 81
aud 53th were called into action and suffered
A. vcrcly Brigadier Shirley on hcmd ship,b
4 he heard of the assault, he resolved
p join his brigade. and e accordingly came up
- camp that very morning. Colonel Unett of {
J. 10Th regiment. was ,he senior officer in Brigad
:, Shirley's absence. and on him ,uld have dew
we'd the duty of leading the stormng column
e the Light Division, had the latter not return,
i Colonel Unett. ignorant TO the Brigadier's int
!, ton to leave shipboard, had to decide with Co
a mel Wndham who should take precedence in t
c attack. They tossed and Colonel Unett won.
2. He had in it his power to say whether he wor
d, go FIRST or follow Colonel Windham. He look