Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-07-21
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DETAILS.

made hy the allies on the 1ah nlt. The vHrou,
correspondents a~oribe the repulse and great loss
which the French mud English experienced to The
want If proper management, mud the total absence
of that military knowledge aud judgement 50 re
quisite in such hazardous and difficulty undcrta
kings. We make Up tho following Interesting
details
FuH Pdrtiepiars o fhe Attack on the Redan and
ualako r Tortrs The Repuise offhe Besisg
ers- Thrilling Scenes and iacidents-7trri-
be Slaughter
lElGHrs BEFORE SrBAsroPolsjune 81
The original plan of attack contemplated n
joint English and French assault Of the Malokoff,
which j. commanding tho Redan and forming the
grand key 10 the whole network of rcdoubts and
haieric. in front Of the place, would if taken, at
once hive rendered the place untenable and
place the town md harbors at the mercy "i the
cupfors Fot reasons. however. which nobody
eau understand, th- very sensible and apparent
i " most practical -ighn wns abandoned.nnd the
plan wa changed into uue Of n simultaneous Mt
tack upon the two great wnrks-the Mnakott be-
ing undertaken by the French aud the Redan by
ourselves. The ftst manifest disadvantage Of
this arrangement was the spreading Of our forces
over field of difficulties nearly double IN extent,
/ aud enabling the enemy 10 bring vast numher
/ of guns into play against Is which in the former
case. could not have injured man 70 vastly
enhance the chances Of failure involved in this
pun ~ Ourselves tui hVlt htlhthlllE i'if's III
GLIDING supports and everybody else, was limited
10 some four thousand men whilst the French. with
n much juser appreciation Of the difficulty
that fell to their share, told twenty five thops-
md.
THE RAD BLuNpER TO BEGIN WITH
Of our handful again, a large proportion con
sisted of raw recruits, recently arrived To fill up
the gaps in the regiments selected for the service
Regiments which, with one or two exceptions,
have borne tie whole brunt of ous trench fight
ing. and suffered accordingly. This was done
/ through 40 want of old soldiers. Of whom The
/ third and fourth divisions could have furnished
/ nbunlnnce-men who have been kept compare
lively idle whilst their comrades of the Light aud
Second Divisions have been worked like galley
slaves Sir George Brown. | believe, is to be
thanked fHr tlls selection; anxious rs he was 10
gam fresh laurcis for his own command, though
he well knew the material OF which 80 large
proportion of its strength i composed, have
already mentioned that the 23a Regiment had
been chosen to The attack, aud that, through
similar motive of mistaken desire to bring glory
TO his own faynrito corps, General Airey was,
Mt the eleventh hour, permitted to assign thi-
place of honor to the 3Ith-a regiment which,
whether Justly or not, c,lioys only II moderate
reputation amongst the others now in camp.
FURTHER MISTAKES
Later still in the evening preceding the
sault. SIR George discovered that The major CON
handing the 23i was still laid mp with wound
received in the attack on the Quarries, aud That
the s,uor cnptuiu an officer, by the why, OF soul"
/ years service would have charge of the
corps during the stofmiug. ',Impos-hp; This
will never do, - said the friend Of upnpl' etc neck
furniture, "another regiment, with field officer
in command must be substituted"
\ message to this effect trlegraphcd to
headquarters, bat Lord Raglan, with degree of
common sense which was quite numilitaIY, over
l.. =. IL. II
officer Of Captaiu--'s length Of service. BE-
hi, rank what it might should be quite f. to
lead his regiment INTO action any field od.aer
in the service, and accordingly, that 10 suhai-
tuition should he made. merely mentioned these
,riaes to show the state of uncertainty and con
fusion in which ourpreparatons were still almost
with an hour before the nssaultug force IN ueh-
ed down toward, the scene If lis struggle AL de-
feet.
ErFLEcIoN on pEiIssIER.
Then another deviation from The original pan
If the atHcA vas made, also at the eleventh hnur,
by General Prlissi.r. to which both military sense
and common sense agree III nttrihutng no small
share Of both tie French and our own failure.-
Though the bombardment had been kept mp viz
oron,lv the whole of Sunday. night necessarily
compelled a slackening of the allied FIRE, aud dur.
ing this respite there reason 10 expect that
the Russians would employ themscles IN making
good the injuries d ne to their batteries during
the day. 1t was therefore arranged thai At day.
break GA Monday terrific fire OF shot and shell
should be poured into the Rcdan und MalakaG to
rendrr rs many of thir guns rs possible IN #pn-
Ole If mischief. An houror SO, however, hes re
the combined forces marched from the cam.e3he
French Cnnmander-in Chief rode over to rur
own headquarters aud declared that he COAL not
wal for this preliminary assault OF artillery. rs
he would have - many men in his trench a.
fore the NlalHkoh that there would be no cover
for them; and, consequently. they (and we) lst
attacl, nj dnyhrcak Mt all hazards, and take the
chance af finding the cnemys guns in the m"st
favorable condition in which our bombardnont
and their owners subsequent idieness might 1--we
left them.
DEFEAT PREDICTED.
OF course Lord Raglan complied, though forty
nine out of fifty of tho subaltorns in his camp
would have foretold the consequences to be *
peeted; and accordingly, soon after the FIRST
strenks of sunlight broke over the horizon, the
doomed thousands rushed to defeat and death
So little is ever known of the details of French ope
rations here, that can give You only few partlc
ulars of the attack on the Malakof; but their plan
of assault appears to have consisted in assault
ing the work on both TANKS and the front smn
taneously. and with overwhelming numbers
twenty five thousand are said to have been CT
i gagged.
THE BoMBARDMENr BEGUN.
In lust retributon for the disregard of their gen
eral to the good to be expected FRONT short morn
/ ing's bombardment, they found the redoubt
swarmng with defenders, aud guns bristling from
every embrasure. On them, on our own mel
showers of grape and canister pere poured ont
| literally motcing docn trhole bditdiionS al
time; whilst from tine whole semi circular line o
/ parapet the crowd of rihemen sent volley atte
vollev into their dsordered ranks that pa~se
through them like a sheet of moulten lead. Thre
tunes they gave way, and as often rallied; SOM
l.. IA al l.,4,-.