The true Democrat., 1855-01-10
The Field of Inkermann after the
 Battle.

Novenlber, 8-1 P. M-Now that we are able to think over the battle of Inkermann, we find our losses to be really alarming Gens Tor rens, Cathcart, Goldie and Strangwavs were killed. Yesterday afternoon, near the camp Lord Raglan, and most of the chief English and French officers, attended their funerals- Strangways was killed by piece of shell, which struck and burst on Colonel Poulet Son. ershots horse close by Lord Raglan The guards have lost upwards of 700 men killed and wounded, and 29 officers. The Coldstream guards had eight officers killed. The Both, 4lst, 47th, 49th and 55th are entirely cut up. The returns to-day give 39 officers killed and 95 wounded Our total loss is 2,36O Up- wards of 5000 Russians, dead and wounded, re- main on the field of battle Of these more than 5000 are dead. Our Mimic bullets have mangled the Russians in the same awful man. ner as at Alma. Nearly all our dead were kill | ed by shot and she'll Some of them were so mangled as barely to be recognizable for human remains. It is awful to stand over one of the heights and look over the field. The ground is hidden by the corpses. Round the little battery which was taken and retaken so often, are 25, ,OOO dead Russians For about 50 yards around the outside of the battery, the corpses literally lie two and three deep. Many of the wounded were afterwards killed by the shells which the Russians threw from the forts to the north of the harbor.
 Novemeber 9.-On the evening of the battle I went over to the field. 1 think 1 have said, over and over again, that it was sight which could never be described. A considerable num- Der, some 800 to 1000 Russians killed and wounded, were lying among our tents and here also were many, too many, corpses of Zouaves and French infantry of the line. All our wound- ed have been removed, and the wounded of the enemy were being gathered in. The kindnese and attention of our men to their helpless enemies was beyond all praise. They brought them water, got knapsacks to put under their heads, and borrowed blankets in which to cov- CT them from the raw nj ght air; here and there small groups of them stood absorbed in pity round some prostrate foe, to whom their kind ness came too late, and who, shot either through the head or lungs, gasped out his ex-
 stence in painful sobs, or terminated it in a hor- rible convulson which would make your blood curdle to hear.
 A little above the line of tents was the hill overlooking Inkermann 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 spectacle of the bodies of those who have been struck down by round shot or shell. One poor fellow of the 95th had been struck by two A 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 upon these sickening details; suffice it to say that here. among the carcasses of some 200 killed and wounded horses, lay the bodies of our brave English and French artillerymen, all more or less frightfully mutilated. 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 on the chest or stomach, were literally as smashed as If they had been crushed in machine
 But 1t 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 musketry before the artillery came up. On this spot the Russians kept dropping shells the whole night, but their vindictive efforts were all in vain; all who lay in reach of their mis- siles had suffered the last which they were to endure on earth. Passing up the road to &c., bastopol, between heaps of Russian dead, you come to the spot where the: guards had been compelled to retire from the defence of the walls before Inkermann valley. Here our dead were nearly as numerous as the enemy's.- Across the path, side by side, lay five guards men who were killed by one round shot as