Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-11-01

shot through the head by Russian ri
fem an and fell dead across Col. Wind
ham, and at the same moment Killean,
and Cornellis were both wounded. Thl
latter claims the reward Of f5 Offered
by Col. Herbert to the first man of hi
division who entered the Redan. Run
ming parallel to the faces Of the Redal
there is. as / have described, an inne
parapet intended to shield the gunner
at the embrasures from the effects of any
shell that might fall into the body o
the work, and strike them down if thi:
high body were not there to protec
them from the splinters. Several cut:
in the rear of the embrasures permitted
the men to retire in case of need inside,
very strong and high traverses ran
along The sides of the work itself to af-
ford them additional shelter.
From the Sevastopol Correspondence of the
London Times, Sept 1lth.
OF all the pictures of the horrors Of
war which have been presented to the
world, the hospital of Sevastopol pre-
sents the most horrible, heart-rending
and revolving. 1t cannot be described,
and the imagination of a Fusell could
not conceive anything at all like unto
it. How the poor human body can be
mutilated and yet hold its soul within,
when every limb is shattered, and ey-
cry vein and artery is pouring out the
life stream, one might study here at
every step, and at the same time won
der what little will kill The building
used as an hospital is one-of the noble
piles inside the dockyard wall, and is
situate in the centre of the row at right
angles to the l;ne of the Redan.
The whole row was peculiarly expos
ed to the action of shot and shell boun-
ding over the Redan, and to the missiles
directed at the Barrack Battery, and it
bears in sides, roofs, windows and doors,
frequent and destructive proofs of the
severity of the cannonade. Entering
one of these doors beheld such sight
as few men, thank God, have ever
witnessed. In long low room, sup
ported by square pillars, arched at the
top, and dimly lighted through shatter-
ed and unglazed window frames, lay the
wounded Russians, who had been aban-
doned to our mercies by their General.
The wounded did say? No, but the
dead, rotten and fostering corpses of the
soldiers, who were left to die in their
extreme agony, untended, uncared for,
packed as close as they can be slowed,
some on the floor, others on wretched
trestles and bedsteads, or pallets of
straw, sopped and saturated with blood,
which oozed and trickled through upon
the floor, mingled with the droppings
of corruption.
With the roar of exploding fortresses
in their ears, with shell and shot forcing
the roof and sides of the rooms
in which they lay, with the cracking and
Kissing of fire around them, these poor
fellows, who had served their loving
friend and master, the Gar, but too
well, were consigned to their terrible
fate. Many might have been saved by
ordinary care. Many lay, yet alive,
with maggots crawling about in their
Many nearly mad with the
scene around them, or seeking to escape
rom it in their EXTREMIST agony, had
rolled away under the beds, and glared
,ut on the heart stricken spectators, oh
with such looks. Many with arms
broken and twisted, the jagged splinters
sticking through the raw flesh, implored
aid, water, food, or pity, or deprived of
speech by the approach of death, or by
lreadful injuries on the head or trunk,
pointed to the lethal spot.
Many seemed bent alone on making
heir peace with heaven. The attitudes
If some were so hideously fantastic as
o appal and root one to the ground by
1 sort of dreadful fasination. Could
hat bloody mass of clothing and white
bones ever have been human being, or
hat burnt black mass of flesh have ever
been human soul? II was fearful to
,hink what the answer must be. The
bodies of numbers of men were swollen
and bloated to an incredible degree,
and the features distended to a gigantic
size. with eyes protruding from the
sockets, and the blackened tongue lol-
ing out OF the mouth. compressed
lightly by the teeth which had set upon
{ in the death rattle, made one shudder
and reel round.
In the midst of one of these "Cham
oers of horrors"--for there were many
Of them-were found some dead and
some living English soldiers, and among
hem poor Captain Vaughan Of the
both, who has since succumbed to his
wounds. / confess it was impossible
or me to stand the sight, which horri-
led our most experienced surgeons-the
leadly clammy stencil, the smell of
wounds, of corrupted blood,
,f rotting flesh, were intolerable and
odious beyond endurance. But what
must the wounded have felt who were
obliged to endure all this and who pass
ID away without hand to give them a
;up of water, or voice to say one kind
y word to them.
Most of these men were wounded on
perhaps on the Friday
oefore-indeed, it is impossible to
say how long they might have been
here. In the hurry Of their retreat
The Muscovites seem to have carried in