The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-02-28
The horrors Of War.

uecb Whak esoeO sHOSe PVot
Be in atthe END of a night ana aay
epenttin such shelter, h1doteo together
without any change OF clothing, and "
ing packed up As close as they stow
In saturatod blankets.
The huts are on board ships in the
sharbor Of BalaklaEa. and are likely to
sstsyrthere. Some of these huts, of which
we heard SO much have seen floating
about the beach, others have been Ian
ded andAnow and then l have met a
Wretched poney, knee deep in mud,
struggling on beneath the weight OF TWO
thin deal planks, small portion OF one
of these hnts,e which wonidsoe most PROD
-speDly converted INTO aIter Y
ing TOT some TIME camp, OF De
turned into staDtng TOT omcers, horses
ynen enough o. atgece@ men'orG nao
been collected
q It's an .aetaal truth that u force IL
deprived day aDy day OF the service oil
about lsoVg men ~inIeyery q nourA-
saeefe esre o,9o9 s,eA : oHp
NJ TOT GUY, ana .neas are
so-.eS = ,ba bo.n;tais on tbe
Bosphoras. About 800 Of the Guards
have Sied since the battle of Inkerman.
The Cad Regiment, which came out up
wards efeo0 strong, is reduced to 240
snt for duty. The 46th Regiment is re-
1uced to about the same strength. The
.horses 0ftthe cavalry and field artillery
have been used ia, bring up stores and
do fatigue work of all kinds until they
are perfectly useless kWeyhaEe neither
cavalry nor field artillery at this mo-
nent really eheient- The men are
atherefore employed to bring up on their
shoulders the shot and shell for the pat
fteries, as well as their own rum and
other y.proEisiens and their wood, and
this from q distaner of seven to ten miles
through country knee-deep in some
Plaeesin mud@ OF course they knock
up byahundreds and go to the field hos
pitals, and there they get from bad to
worse, and, instead of. recoyering their
strength in two or three days, they are
carried down BY the French to Baiakla-
va.Where those that do not die remain
until TRANSPORTS can DO procured to re-
move them TO Constantinople.
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AZ t1olisn aisgLapn Papst
'1s e,ne1 aaystu Thien soue pHNs
Pnae loioe 1ae VIII sssss 1onpaN'
Pro,ee9o us sadslaoeOn snas tne l"
e0lo oI !ne ortnea wa wss nos g.ea .Sa aa9
tH1s q ytlon' ane nau 1onle ~ sne
- :. tbat
-a.I5 = -gorid h.
so..iiy sbe IN resist the frosts aud
s1ovs of the CTimea. But the philoso.
49, an;te forgot tbattbn n%eonle of. Dr..
AZ not or3inar;Iy Get mn Mt nigbt
"a s.IE .hnnt + hills ,reund them.
- Teen bnddIed nm ON the bottom Of
deem tr~encbesssfull Of snow. having moth
;ngt - nrotect them from-the cold but a
great coat and q blanket. An extreme
P lh.,a -f,ost hogan abaut midnioht
fIan 5tbl and the thermometer this
N,o,n;na ,yas al der IOmip. or more
tLs5~I6 deorees If cold The result
SaS1 "a ;magined The cavalry divi.
80 lost abont 90 horses during the
niSht. and I dread 10 think of the num-
Der Of our noble soldiers who will re-
ceive their eoxp de grace from this
weather.. If it lasts. 1 am credibly in
formed that. out of one division alone,
men we're aiken ont of the trenches
% the hospital tents. seized with cramp
and half fsazen not 40 much perhaps
fren,-tbe cold a. from the want Of prop
- clotbipo and inability to move about
4 8 circulate the blood.
-. Zano. - -ur ,,v,r
~
r1Y
snaar;noS e..
~ All f-om the eject Of the
ala Even nov while r am writing. I
An persisted with cold sitting in the cold
Ant. God knows what we shall do if
lie Almighty deserts us now in the try
iaes time. We are up to our knees in
NOV and you may depend we fee1it go-
ine into the trenches for IL or IA hours:
and. fit In FOUR turn for the advanced
trenches you havenot q chance of jump
Ing about to keep yourself warm, for
for Of 4 80 pounder or rifle ball from
the skirmishers j q theirshples under the
batteries running after you with a stun
ming message to halt. It would cut you
IL the heart to see the remains of our
onee ine regiment. We came out here
about 1000 strong, and now NE can
hardly muster 100 men for duty. The
other night it showed terribly, and we
found about every man we could mus
terSas eoeet naitPass loul ~ sne efen-
ing, orur usual time OF, mounting IN Inc
trenches q they mad nardiy marcneo
on. oelore news eame-tnat naiI OF ene
parry nao Ialen GoHnq quite helpless Win
pains 30 that the SICK at nome were