Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-22
0Nlllurington yomM'.
14E FAMOUS SIX HUNDRED
pe.JniOn Of the Survivors of the
Charge at Balaklasa.
,,rhe Wen who ss Cd intO 80 he
valley of Death.'t

1-ao5e the men vEO rode into The
i!VsIIoy of Death" IN that fatal Octo
no ming one and twenty years $50,
invited to attend meeting last nj hit
~ r.ae arrangements for d nner III
ooIahration of the anniversary of the
RaI,kIaya charge. The trystIng place
% tha Prince of Wales Tavern, VII
I;ars street Strand, and the hour fixed
- the mn ,ter was 9 o'c Ock, to enable
49, who engaged in business to pu
anpearance In constqu' c. Of
tIa disagrfeable drIzzling rain, not SO
,,onv came a. were expected, but d re
a,ectahIe contingent. III every sense Of
a. word of war-~"In veterans, an
a-,,ral TO tn rOi-cail ali the same
Hale hearty mel they were, the most
Of them: mt. so Dortly Of bliid, that
thew set one n,.rring what sort Of
ToIt cavalry that must have been
where the weight In the pig Nkln ran
m to eighteen stone az living flesh IL
snndrv instances. Joviai OF manner
and nrat o. address, they dIscnss.
The matter before them as one mIoht
lave expected in bri,l, soldier;y, and
rooof fi.:Inpni0Us manner It was
agreed sLat Il dinner ohnn q he SOL
emn7z-d n the Ci'aring Cross Hotel
i not so!emnizrl th., correct word
f,r has lot Charles Lever Cafined ia
Sinner a. q =, ciai sac. uuttDt on tie
9-ff5 If October. aud it was - lt+-d thai
many officers Who had h-Ip-c 10 write
me Of the most hrjuiant pages III our
military anunl- lad prom st / IT, give
tba eytl.tthr sanction Of their presence
The greater part of those IL
th- room bad belonged to the
Eleventh Husg .rs. HAT di-iii gu ei
COPS h4yei' 6 be n n tcipa!lY cru: d
in L1udcl. One warrior hat served
his apprenticeship to arms uI1-r ID =
Lacey Evans in Spaiu; another was
reIaarkabie as having borne t fl g Of
tfnca tn tue Russian in 3 the lay after
R,laElava: = thlrl " y never tired of
ealelr ting the hrrtts .fuifs If his an
cent captain, SIR Roger PeIri r, Wh,, /
Ia tie T. truop rr the Eleventh iuUc /
artion. and did his slaughter nth cod /
.t4ei, having forgotten his re Oliver ia /
.heLUrry t" jump into tne "a die At f.
ter the formal prOce diugs were over |!
there vas some rar" gossip Ov.r fOr ny 7
a4ps5E , amt tue nou-mii t.rY OBJ +.
server was enabled to pick up some .
interesting "reminiscences.
II is Il curious cjrcpr.sta-cn that .
every man but one who wor that Il
Ireuest Of all military distinctions,
fine Victoria Cross. in the InsgU J Il ..ent .
mad n ]e immortaiized by TIE tau~t.t,tt.
hid 81. horse sEot uDder him. There
Vas Topper Samuel Parkcs. of the
Light Dragons. who stood Oh the
Ground with his charger writing in
The death agony beside him Trumpet
Major Crawford flashed by; his good
stred stumbled. the ride WIS die
mounted, and hi4 aked .-sbre sent
vhrlinG out of his grasp i par Of
Co=ssths saw their Opprfs nnlty and
spurrrd UpO tie. d,f-uce!e Il, CraWfO
bat Paikrs confront i tht Ill and kept
them at bay. When the retreat came
tie two brave fellows followed their
comrades, aud Were pursued by six
Russians, but Parkt S, with his single
sword, held them at arm s length ami
retired slowly, tigh ing and defending
the trumpet major until deprived Of
lis weapon 10y a shot. This Is o tho
d1mOntade, but pain fact, as re-
corded III the Gazette. Lieutenant
Alexander Robert Dunn, Of Car
digad's boys, was another hereof that
day, fruitful in heroes. He saved the
life OF Sergt. BentIy. of his own c1rEs,
by cutting down two or three Russian
troopers who were attacking HIM in
tie rear, and afterwards hewed to the
chine a Russian hussar who had fallen
upon private Ievett. This Dunn, it
viii b. remembered, afterwards com
handed the Thirty third, beng the
Youngest man of his rank in the army,
AID persisted il the Aby,siuian expe-
i.tlOn. Riding mast Joseph Malone
had his horse hot IL the charge, but,
properly speaking, bis bit of glorious
gun-metal WAS gained the day previous
EAen he volunteered wi b three troop
ers, GA the march to BrIakiava, aud
captured an escort of the enemy's cav
dry and the baggage they were con
yerng IT, SyhastopOi. Troop Sergeant
MAJOR john Bergman, of the old
Death shoad and Cross bones, the
same sturdy cavalier vino tor K prisoner
tire Russians while tnev wee within
leach Of thel. own guns at Mckenz e's
trm, behaved sp'end d ~ at B. Iaklava.
| When ms horse was shot nuder him he
! Stopped l. he field with Capt W-bb,
VIC Was wounded. amid shower of
s-9t auI @ucll, and all )ugh repeatedly
'.st -. tA4hC ttI1CfE 10 cDuSillt Ills -" II
ss,ety, a1d Ieaye INN, be refused To do
50, and, Sergeant jOhu Farrell coming
~, the two faithful fellows carried
Ipt. Webb out OF tie range OF the
sll5- The courageous Irishman Far
!r4, who lost h!s horse, Ike the ma
n'y Vi hi pIucky =, mIanions, aud
I'D gone near to lo-i-G his life, was
aFar.itd the euVied honor, but did not
M-g survive to wear 1t Charles
"eoden now quArterna-Scr III the
We Hundred and Fourth foot, was an
0,-cr OF the Seventeenth Iancera who
5afled the cross On the 25th of Octo-
,ygf, 1871, ard he, too, had his chLrger
&-ed IL the wild nei' q. Assisted by
u Monatt, Of the InnIsk lien dra-
sy5'N, he succeeded in CARRYING Major
HONS, Of his own regiment, who lay
W-'!iuiiy wounded, to plac Of
'1eiy In chatt- recollections such .
'A'se We have tried to pen an. III .
ats Of hair breadths 'scapes III the T
-LI lays gone by, the time was pleas +
a-~y passed, and shortly before mid I
I64. IN survivors of the six Hun /
eta separated. looking forward With /
.,'qa' anticipation to d III erry meeting .
VI bIaklava Day.