The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-28
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE

The following account of an extraordinary scene
IN the battle OF Bareily, India on the 5th of May,
Is from the correspondence of the London Times:
Arrived here, he says, we all knew that the bat
tie of Bareilly would take place. This was on the
morning of the 9Th. After daybreak, the army had
its usual first halt, and Sir Colin rode actively
among the various regiments, experimenting the
arrangements which nominally were left in the
hands of Brigadier Wapole. The commander-in-
chiet was without staff; one aid-de-camp Sir Da-
vd Baird. sick of fever, the other Can't Allison
suffering from small pox. Indeed the staff of the
commanderin-chef and that of his chief of the staff
offered no pleasant or profitable prospect Sir Co
lin has used up more than one set of officers com
petely, and of General Mansfeld's staff there only
remains Capt Hope tombstone. However, some
way or other, the work is DONE
Here follows detailed account of the dispatch
oil the force. The first shot, as approached the
stream which crosses the road was fired by the en-
my from 4 rude breastwork thrown ND about half
mile in front of the bridge; but few shots from
our batteries speedily drove them back from this
advanced position, and they fell back from the
bridge towards the deserted and half runous build-
ngs which formerly were the lines of our force at
Bareilly. The suburbs of the town were taken pos
session of by the Sinks, who being exposed TO n
heavy fire, retired in disorder, and were met by the
advancing Highanders And now occurred a most
extraordinary scene.
Among the matchbox men, who to the number of
700 800 lying behind the walls of the houses
was body of Ghazee and Mussumen fanatics, who.
like the Roman Decii, devote their lives with SOL
oaths to their country and their faith utterinp
loud cries. One hundred and thirty of these fanat
les sword in hand rushed out after the Sikhs, and
dashed at the left If the right wing of the High
landers; with bodies bent and heads low, wavsp
tuwers with circular motion in the air, they came
on with astonishing rapidity. At first they we're
mistaken for Sikhs whose passage had already
somewhat disordered our ranks
Fortunately Sir Colin was close up with the 42d
His keen, quick eye detected the case at once
STEADY men, steady; close up the ranks; bayonet
them as they come on just in time, for these
madmen, furious with bang, were already among
Us, and body of them, sweeping around the left
of the right wing, got into the rear of the regi
ment. The struggle was sanguinary but short.
Three of them dashed suddenly at Colonel
Cameron that they pulled him off his horse
ere he could defend himself, and he would
have been hacked to pieces, but for the
gallant prompttude of Color Sergeant Gardiner.
who drove his bayonet through two of them in the
twinkling of an eye. Brigadier Walpoe had sim
liar escape. In few minutes the dead bodies of
1874 of these Ghazees, and some eighteen twenty
wounded men of ours, were all the tokens left of
the struggle.
On the 18th our advance pushed right through the
town. In the Jail was found poor lunatic Mr.. |
Healy an Englishman, who left behind when
The Instruction broke out and whose life had been
spared by the superstition of the Mahommedans.