Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-03-02
The Siege of SebRstOPOI-A Ter
rible Picture.

ribIe Picture.
The accounts furnished by the cores
poudents Of the London press in the Cri-
mea, remind one psinfully Of the retrea; of
Napoleon from Moscow. They are perfect
Is sickening, and no wonder the Aberdeen
Ministry were expelled in disgrace after
such disclosures as the following made bT
she correspondent Of the London Herald,
ia his letter dated Heights Of Serastopol,
Jan. 20.'
REGIMENTS DESTROYED.
Perhaps il may modify the inveterate
hostility with which the English public so
Gnjustly pursue the gallant 46Ih to learn,
that as regiment, it has almost ceased to
exist A, .he beginning Of November lasi,
it landed al Balaklava with an effective
strength Of ], 100 bayonets. Il now mus
ters III serviceable men, and as things
are going on il is not very improbable that
at the end Of month even this small rem
nsnt will be reduced to the level Of some
Of our other regiments here. For instance
there is q regiment which figures IN the
army list as the esd, bat is is only in the
army list that it can be found, as nothing
Temains Of it out here The last time 1t
was ordered for duty in the trenches only
ak men, am informed, paraded for service,
and of this small number two were unable
TO proceed even as far as the tent Of the
Brigadier- General The whole six were,
therefore, ordered to return to their quar-
.ers. and the force is now disregimented;
including officers, se1eants, and officers
servants, the entire complement Of the 63d
Is said to be under 40 men. If the unani-
nous voice Of the camp is to be believed,
this deplorable result is due more TO the
imprudence and Encouragement Of Colon
Ell Dalzell than even 10 short rations, hard
work and exposure. Every one who speaks
Of the SD concludes with feryent wish
that the awful and unexsmpled mortality
which has prevailed in the regiment may
not be passed over unnoticed by the au-
thori.ies, but that some inquiry will be
made to ascertain il any undue severity ex-
ercised By the commanding officer has con-
duced, with other causes. to the destruction
Of what two months ago, was one of the
finest regiments in the Cimea Such an
inquiry is due, not less to the memory Of
the unfortunate men, than 10 the reputa-
ton Of Colonel Dalzell. whose imprudence
is spoken Of here iu the harshest terms.
FROZEN TO DEATH.
Major Macdonald, Of the sch, sm in
formed, was frozen to death in the trenches
on the night Of the 18th, and another gal
liant officer who fell into a deep snow drift.
most narrowly escaped the same fate
Both in the nights of the 10th, 18th, and
18th, many Of the men on sentry and on
fatigue parties we're uumbed by the cold
IN such manner as to expire in a few
hours afterwards. On the 18th, II men
Of the 46ih were buried, the majority Of
the deaths being caused by the severity of
the weather, and on the 18Th 10 more were
inferred from the same cause. On the lat
ter occasion the thaW had commenced, and
the bodies of of the 10 were discovered
among their tents by the fact Of their boots
sticking out Of the snow. / believe they
were men who had been employed in "a
tigue parties, and who, becoming numbed
and exhausted, sat down to rest on reach
ing their cantonments. and so perished
miserably. During the continuance of this
severe frost. all the men not actually on
duty used to crowd into the tents, and by
budding together. manage to keep them
selves from actual frost bites. of course
the warmth Of their bodies thawed the
ground on which they sat into mere pud-
dle-The unfortunate men got saturated,
and when on duty their clothes froze to
their flesh 10 such manner that on remov-
ing the stockings Of some the flesh was
stripped off the feet in large pieces. Yet
in spite Of these suferings OF the men OF
scurvy, dysentery, fever. cholera, Of wet by
day and frost by night, of hard work, short
rations, and want of shelter, all the minis
terial journals in England are filed with
nauseous compliments on the conduct Of
the war and on the admirable manner in
which the troops are now housed, fed, and
clothed. Than such statements nothing
can be more utterly without foundation.
At the time | write-and the remarks will
stand good, fear, for month hence-tne
troops are not housed. are only indiffeIenily
fed, and miserably clothed The huts
which have bseu disembarked at Balaklnva
are being erected for hospital purposes
around the village. ea
WASTE OF LIFE.
With such management and such expos
ure, the sickness among our troops aug
ments each dav. At the commencement
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