The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-09

captured ,ilc iiissian cannons before tie
batteries could be withdrawn. Turkish
shells began once more to whistle over
the ridge a'')yc Radishova and fall into
the village behind, now crammed with
wounded The streams of wounded SOL
diers wenling their painful way over the
ridge wcr inccssant. The badly wound
ed m0stlr lny where they fell. Later,
in the da'khcss, Il bairfui sort OF krauk-
cntracgcr swarmcd over the battlefield in
the shape Of Bashi Bazouz:., who spared
not. Lingering there on the ridge till
the moon rose, the staff could hear rom
below, on the still night air, cries of pain
and entreitics for mercy, and the ycls of
blood-thisty fanatical triumph 1t was,
indeed, N houro TO wiring the strongest
heart. ve stayed there to learn, if pos
sible, whist troops were coming out Of the
valley Of The shadow C.; death below, if
there wcE indeed any at ~ to come. 1t
did not sem to be the case. The Turks
had our nnge before dark, and we COZ. Id
watch the fash of flames over against us,
and then listen to the scream Of the she'll
as it tore by US. The sound of rife bull
lets were iocessant, and the escort and
retreating wounded were struck. A de-
tachmentat length began to come strag-
Cling NJ, but it will give an idea Of the
disorganintion to say that when
company was told off to cover somewhat
the wounded in Radishova, it had to be
made up Of men Of several regiments.
About o o'clock the staff quilted the
ridge, leaving it Uttered with the groaning
and dying, moving gently, lest We should
tread on the PROSTATE wounded We lost
our way q. we had lost our army. We
could find no rest for the coles of our feet
by reason Of alarms of the Bashi Bazou-
ka swarmiog in among the scattered and
retiring Rr'sians. AT length, at o'clock
in the moioing, having been in the sad
die since GO'clock on the previous morn.
ing, we turned into II stubble field,
making beds of the reaped grain. Cor
respondent and Cossack alike rested un-
der the stars, but we were even then not
allowed 70 rest, for before o'clock an
alarm came that the Bashi Bnzouka were
upon us, and we had to rouse and tramp
away, The only protection of the chief
of what in the morning was a fine
army was now handful Of wcaricd
Cossacks. General Krudencr sent word
in the moming that he had lost severely,
and could make no headway, and had
resolved TO fall back On the line of the
river Osna. There had been talk This
troops being frcsh) of renewing the at
tack today with his cooperation, but it
is plain statement of fact that we have
no troops to attack with. The most mod
crate estimate is that we have lost two
regiments (say 5000 men) out of our
thee brigades-a ghastly number, beat
ing Eylan or Friendland. This takes no
account of General Krudener's losses.
We, too, retire on the Osma River, about
Bulgaria, and to the best of our weak
strength cover the bridge at Sistova. One
cannot IN this moment of hurried confn-
sion realize all the possible results of this
stroke, 50 rashly courted. Not 4 Russian
soldier stands between Ternova and the
victorious Turkish army in Lovaca and
Plevnar and only weak division of the
l1th Corps stands between Tirnova and
the Shumala army. looked on Prince
Schackokoy's force as wrecked, and no
longer, for this campaign to be counted
as fighting integer. 1t is not ten days
since the Both Division crossed the Dan
ube in the pride of superb condition.
Now, what of it is left is demoralized and
shattered. So, on this side of the Bal
kans, there remains but the 9th Corps,
already roughly handled once Mt Niko-
polls and once at Plevna. one division of
the 11th Corps and the Rustchuk army.
Now ifthe Rustchuk army is marched to
the west against Plevnn, the Turkish
army Of Rustchuk is let loose on the
Russian communications to Tirnova.-
One cannot avoid the conclusion that the
advance over the Balkans is seriously
compromised. The Russian strait is SO
bad ths! scattered detachmeDts have been
called up from out of Roumania, and the
Roumanan division, commanded by
General Mann, which crossed a day CT
two ego y. N;koP0i;s has been called up
to the line of Osma River. An aidc-de-
camp Of the Grand Duke Nicholas was
present at the battle, and at once started
for Tirnova with evil tidings. We are
just quitting this bivouac, and are falling
on Bulgaria with all speed, leaving the
Bulgarian villages to the tender mercics
of the Turks. AS close learn that on
our leh General Skobelof was very Sc
verely handled, having lost 800 men out
of his single infantry Battalion"