New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-12
DETAILS OF THE ASSAULT.
Fson the SPECIAL Covssp0adent az The London Tfr'e

Fro, the SPECIAL Corysspoadeat af The London Tirer
FOURTH Division CAHP, Sept. 10, 1855.
One more great set Of carnage has been added TO
tie tremendous but glorious tragedy OF which the
whole world from the most civilized nations down to
the moot barbarous bordes Of the East, hiss been the
sn1ious and excited audsrce Amid shouts OF victory
and cries of despar-n frantic rejoicing and passion
ate sorroe-a pan Of black smoke, stieaked by the
fery Hastings Of exploding for resses, descends upon
the stage on which has been depicted so many
varkd traits of human misery and Of humsu great
pess such high erdu ance and calm courage slch
Gtt'eness ard weakness, across which have staked
characters which history may develop as largely as
the struggle in which they engaged aud veil to
gigantic proportions, or which she may dwarf into
petiiest dimensions, as unworthy of the part they
PLAYED. dull, strange silence, broken at distant
Intervals by the crash of ciades and palaces they
fy into dust succeeds the ncesssnt dialogue of the
cannon which have spoken so ou5ly and so angrily
throughout entire year, and tired armies separated
from each other by of fires, rest on their arms
ard axe v h varied emotions all that remains of
the object of their conflicts
On The morning of Saturday Sept g, the weather
char ged suddenly, becoming bitterly cold. A biting
wind rg hit from the north eide of Sevastopol blew in
toer able clouds OF harsh dust into our faces. The
| sun was otscured; the sky was OF lesden wintIy
prny Gen Peh sicr during tbe plight collected about
80 coo men about the Mamcon 10 form the storming
column for the Maakof and Little Redan and TO pro-
| vice the necessary reserves. The French were re-
enforced by 5 0C0 Sardiuians who marched up from
the CLerpaya last night. IL was arranged that the
their attack bega tha, we were to assault the
redan.
At lOl the second division and the light division
moved down 70 the trenches, and placed in the
advanced parallels quietly aud unostentstiously as
possible. About the came hour Gen Simpson and
staff moved down 10 the second parallel OF the Greeu
bill battery Sir Henry Jones too i'll to move hand
or foot nevertheless insisted being carried down &c
witnes IS the asssult ard borCe to the parallel
litter in bicb be remained till ii over. 1t wss
as have said bitter cold day, and stranger would
have been astophed at the aspect Of the British geoe
rails as they viewed the assault. The comm andern-
chief Ger Simpson, sat in the trench, with his
and eyes Just facing the cold and dust and his cloak
dawn up his head to protect him against bob.
| Gen Jones led nightcap, and reclined on his
litter; ard Sir Richard Arey, the quarermasterg gene
raj had white pockei-handkerchief tied over his cap
ano cars which detracted somewhat from martial and
be Iii. eren' aspect The Duke of Newcastle sta
toned ct Cahcarts hill IN the early part of the day,
and alterward moved of to the right to the picket
house over the Woronzoff road AL the anlteurs
| ard gentlemen, who rather abound here just now,
were in a sate of great excifement and dotted the
| plain in eccentric attire-which recalled ones old
| memoirs of Cowes, and yachting and sea-bsthing-
wee en-. aged in a series of subtle maneuvers TO turn
the far of unwsry sentres, and TO get to the 'front.'
their was most credab!e to their enterprise
ar d ips cputy The Tartars Turks and Eupatorians
we're sngulaIly perturbed for such placid people, and
| tlroneed every knoll which commanded the smallest
view of the plsce At l0} Gen. Pelsser and his staff
went Bp to the Frerch observatory on the right The
French trenches were crowded with men cose as
! they could pack al we could our men through
the breaks in the clouds of dust, which most rr
taiing all ready in their trenches
few minutes before l2 O'Clock the French, like
swarm of bees issued forth from the trenches close to
| the doomed Maakof swarmed up it. face aud
through The eubrasures in the tvnkling of an eye.
They crossed the seven metres OF ground which sep
areted them from the enemy at q few bOunds-they
orifted as lightly and quickly autumn leaves before
the wind battalion after BATH on into the embrasures,
and in minute two after the head of their colu m
a.k.I sho ri 90
II e Korniof bastion. The musketry very feeble
a first indeed aliesI took the Russians quite by
spr,re, ard very few OF the latter were in the Malls
kOf; but they recovered themselves and from ~
| o'clock till past in the evening, the French had 10
meet and defeat the repeated attempts of the enemy
TO regain the work and the Little Redsn, when weary
of H. fearful slaughter OF his nen who lay in thousands
the exterior of the works the MuscOvite general
.spariDg Of success withdrew his exhausted legious
| and prepared with admirable skill TO evacuate the
| place. OF the French attack on the left | know
nothing but that, if intended iD est it no.
succt sfu and followed by some loss cur allies
As soon the tricolor observed waving over the
parapet of the Maakof through the smoke and dust,
four rockets sent up from Chapmans attack
after another a signal for assault on the redan
They were almost borne back by the violence Of the
wind and the slvery Jets Of sparks they threw out on
exploding, Learly invisible against tue gray
sly .o.. :, .o
The fifth parallel. The musketry commenced at once,
and iD less than five minutes, during which the troops
had to pass about thirty yards from the nearest
approach to the parepet of the redsn they had lost
large proportion Of their officers and we're deprived
of tie aid Of their leaders, with the exceptions have
stated. The rfemen advanced admirably, but from
their position they could not do much 10 reduce the
fire OF e gus the TANKS aud below the reenterng
aIgles As they came nearer the enemys fire became
less fetal They crossed the abattis without difficulty;
il was torn TO pieces and destroyed by shot, aud
the men stepped over and through it with ease The
eh division made straight for the salient and pro-
iecDg angle of the reoan, and came TO the cioh,
which il here about fifteen feet deep. The party de-
tailed for the purpose placed the ladders but they
were found to be too short Ho Tever had there been
but soue had been left behind in the hands of the
dead or wouI ded meD and others had been broken,
that II one cre0it the statements made by those
who were present, there were not mere than elk
sven ladders at the salient. The men, led by their
officers lesped into the ditch and scramble up the
other side, whence they got up the parapet almost
without opposilioD for the few Russars who in
frcnt ran back and got behind their traverscs aud
breastworbs soon a. they saw our On the top,
an6 opeLed fie upon them.
As the light division rushed out in the front they
were swept by the guns of the Basck battery aud by
several pieces the proper right Of the redan, loaded
bt ayily it'll grape which caused them considerable
oss they reached the salient apex Of the work at
which they were TO asss ut. The sormiDg columns of
the second division issuing out of the fifth parallel
rushed up Immediately after the light division, bat
wh they up close TO the apex Brig adler Wind
ham very jndicously brought them by slight de.our
on the right flank Of the light division so as TO come
little down te slope Of the proper left face Of the
RedaD. The first einbI asure to which they came was
In flames, but moving on to the next, the eaped
Others hands scrambled up the other side climbed
tie paraIet, or poured in through the embrssure
which was unc efeI ded. COL Windham was the first
or ole Of the 6rsi men in on this aide, aud with him