The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-07

some hopes of success. The dukes revelling
army was to be surprised and cut to pieces by
the brOadswords before it could recover from the
first fierce and unexpected onslaught. The
English camp was only nine miles distant
across the moor, and it was hoped they would
reach it at about midnight The Pretender
gave, as a watchword, his fathers name,
'King James the Eighth"
Then embracing Lord George Murray, who
started at eight in the evening with the fore
most column, he placed himself at the head Of
the rear guard. The order was to use no fire.
arms only dirk and broadsword, to cut down
and overturn the English tents, and stab at
every bulging or projection in the canvas. But
even ''the stars in their courses fought against
Sisera;" all went wrong. Many d6tours were
necessary to avoid bogs and splashes. The
van guard fell behind the men dropped aside,
and could not be kept together. 1t was in
the morning before Lord George reached the
old house of Kilravock, three miles from the
dukes camp. 1t would be daylight directly.
A drum beat the distance, or horse neighed,
and it was presumed the enemy was alarmed.
Lord George reluctantly gave the order to
retire. The Prince, in his first anger, accused
his faithful and only sound adviser of trea-
cherry; but, when he cooled, he agreed in the
necessity of the measure, and exclaimed,
" IT'S no matter. We shall meet them, and
behave like brave boys" but the Highlanders,
broken in spirits from want of food, were not
like the men who at Preston had swept of
arms with a single blow of their scythe blades,
or who, single-handed, had driven before them
Aocks of dismounted dragons. Still they
were at bay and in earnst, full of fight,
and proud of their former successes against
the kings troops.
And now let us describe the field of
battle. Drummoissie Moor (Culloden) is
large heathy, messy, melancholy
moor, traversed longitudinally by a by
road, and sprinkled with a few shielings,
each with its little tributary kali patch. 1t
is two miles inland from the south shore of the
Moray Firth, five miles from Inverness, and
ten or twelve from Nairn. Inverness was be-
hind the rebels; on their right rolling range
of blue ROss-shire mountains across the river
Nairn; on their left, the sea, with the park of
Culloden stretching downwards towards the
shore of the Firth. To the east, says Robert
Chambers, the moor spreads away like shore
less sea- as far as the eye can reach.
The Princes army, drawn up in two lines,
consisted of only about 5000 men. The right
was protected by the turf walls of small farm
stead. The left extended to plashy morass, in
the direction of Culloden House. In the front
were the clan regiments of Atholl, Cameron,
Appin, Fraser, Macintosh, Maclachlan Maclean,
John Roy Stuart, Farquharson, Clanronald,
Keppoch, and Glengarry. The second scanty
line comprised the low country, the French
and Irish regiments, Lord Ogilvie's, Lord
Lewis Gordon's, Glenbucket the Duke of
Perth. -Four small cannon were placed at each
wing, and four more in the centre. Lord
George Murray commanded the right wing,
Lord John Drummond the left, and General
Stapleton the second line. Charles himself
stood with a small body of guards upon
mound in the rear of the whole.
The front ranks of the Highlanders were
armed with muskets, broadswords, pistols,
and dirks. They carried on their left arms
round wooden target covered with leather, and
studded with nails. They had also small knives
stuck into the garters of the right leg. Some of
the rear rank man had Gnne nor targAtO, e"d
were shoeless and half naked. They carried
their cartridges in pouches on their right side.
Many of them wore the philabeg, or kilt,
pulled through betwiXt their legs so as to
leave the thigh almost naked. The artillery
men, also in kits, had reared beside every
gun cylindrical shields of wicker work to pro-
tect themselves. Those of our readers who
have seen a Highland regiment, can picture to
themselves the large-limbed, stalwart swords
men, in the prime of their manhood, looking
as if they could not die; the white cockades of
the Cragsmen cleaning, their dark-green,
black, and scarlet tartans 1luttering in the cold
moor wind that shook the oak, yeW, and box
tree badges in their bonnets.
About eleven in the forenoon, the dim grey
line Of the distant moor, bright with April
sunshine, gloOmed and darkened with the ad-
vancing lines of Cumberland's army, that
gradually widened out, and glistened with
steel points. The Prince went out to the moor,
and ordered cannon to be fired, to summon
his straggleTs.
The royal army was disposed in three lines;
the centres of all the regiments of the second
line being behind the examinations of those of
the first, and those of the third line occupying
a similar position in regard to the second. Thus
the various bodies of which the army consisted
were in a manner indented into each other.
Betwixt every two regiments of the first line
were placed two cannon. The left flank was
protected by Kerr's Dragons (the lIth),
under Colonel Lord AnCrum; the right by a
bog; and CObham's Dragons (the 1Ot6) stood
in two detachments beside the third line. The
Argyle Highlanders guarded the baggage. The
disposition thus made was allowed by the best
authorities to have been admirable; because II
was impossible for the Highlanders to break
one regiment without finding two ready 10
supply its place. The insurgent army was
also allowed to be very we'll posted upon a
supposition that they were to be attacked.
There is contemporary print which repre-
sents the English army as it now appeared
The burly, chOleric young duke wears star on
the breast of his long, stitI gold-laced coat and
is adorned with close ourled wig and three.
cornered cooked hat. He is riding, and point
ing out a regiment with his walking cane. The
gTenadiers have oOcked-hats, long surtouts
sash-belts, swords, and long white CATERS
The fumes of the Adam and Eve ale have dis.
persed long ago in this keen Scotch air. The
colors rise and blossom from the centre of each
regiment. The officers, with their spontoons
(haltpikes), stand at the wings. The drum.
mer-bOys are a little in advance, The dra