The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-10-18

OF leaping the ditch, horse and maj
! rolled together. to the ground, tn
|, horse dead or wounded, the rider un
touched. He sprAng TO his feetwith
shout; then with . formidable, favag
yell the mass Of men streamed Owe
l the ditch, over the SCRAP and counter
scarp, over the parapet, and swep
into the redoubt like hurricane
Their bayonets made short work o
the Turks. still remaining. Then 1
| joyous cheer told that the redoubt wa
captured, and that at last one Of thu
defences Of Plevna was in the hands o
the Russians. ,;.,.,,.. .sf ~.
sKoBELEFF CARRIES THE RED oUB1
4 Having seen as much as have seen
Of the Turkish Infantry fire from be-
4 hind trenches and walla,I thought u
was beyond flesh and bleod To break
10, q belief which had been strength.
ened by Kriloff's repulse, whichI had
just witnessed, SkobeleR proved the
contrary, but 1t what q saOridCe1 In
4 aCsshort ruslrof,a few hundted y ards
$4,000 men had been left on the hillside,
ON the glacis, the scarp, and the ditch
-one-f0urth of the whole force. / be-
lieve that Skobeleff looks. upon such
4 attacks, upon such positions, as almost
criminal, and disapproved highly the
1 whole plan Of attack on Plevna; but
I've believes that If an attack Is to be
/ made, 1t can only be done In this man
ner, and that, although the loss Of
men may be great, IL is better that the
loss should be incurred and the victory
won, than half the loss with q certain .
ty of defeat. Skobeleff seems to be the
| only one among the Russian Generals
who has studied the American war
with profit. He knows 1t by heart,
and IL will be seen by those who have
studied the great civil war that IN this
assault Skobeleff followed the plan of
the American Generals on both sides
when attempting to carry such posi-
lions, TO follow up the assaulting col
umn with fresh troops, without wait
ing for the first column to be repulsed.
If the position proves too strong for
the first column, then reinfOrcements
are at hand before they have time to
break and run. -al
CAN HE HOLD IT? 9s
Skobeleff had the redOubt. The
question now was how to hold II. 1t
was dominated by the redoubt Of
Krishina on the left already spoken of.
1t was exposed at the Plevna side to
the fire of the sharpshooters and to the
Turkish forces in the wood bordering
the Sophia road, and open to the fire
of the entrenched camp. There was q
cross of fire coming from three differ
ent points. At daylight next morn
ing the Turks opened fire from all
sides. Tie distance from the redOubt
at Krishina had of course been acsu-
rately measured, and the guns dropped
shells into the redoubt with the utmost
precision on the exposed sides. The
back of the redoubt was q solid rock,
on which it was impossible to erect q
parapet. All the earth had been used
for the construction of the parapets on
the other side. It was evident that
the position was untenable, unless the
entrenched camp on the other side of
Plevna and the Krishina redoubt could
be taken. Skobeleff renewed his de-
mand for reinforcements made the
evening before. Although his losses
had been great the spirit Of his troops
was SO good that with another regi-
ment he was willing to capture the re-
doubt and the entrenched camp, or he
would undertake to hold the position
until something could be attempted in
some other quarter. The Grivica re-
doubt had also been carried by the
Roumanians and Russians under Gen.
Shnitnikoff Could one or two more
positions be carried during Wednes-
day, say the Krishina redoubt and one
entrenched camp on the same ridge as
the Grivica redoubt, the fAilof Plevna
might be considered certain. At sun
rise the Turks began an attack on the
captured redoubt, and the storm of
battle again ragged with fury here while
all was quiet everywhere else. The
pulsed. Another attack was made
tinued all day long until the Turks
had attacked and been beaten five sue
cessive times. 49, s'iH o. 4iH>f tpl
DEATH ON ALL SIDES.
The Russian losses were becoming
fearful. General Skobeleff had lost,
he thinks. 1000 men In attacking the
redOubt. By the afternoon he had lost
5000 more in holding IL, while his
battalions shriveled up and shrank
away as fly magic. One battalion of
sharp-shooters had been reduced to 100
men. A company which had been $50
men was now 40. An immense pro-
portion of officers were killed or
wounded. Only one commander of q
regiment is alive; scarcely head of y
battalion is left. Two officers of the
staff were killed, one of whom was
jVerastchagin, brother of the great |
artist. Another brother was wounded.
General Bobrovolsky, commander of |
the sharpsh00ters, was killed. One |
officer was blown to pieces by the ex-
plosi0n of caisson. Captain Kurap- |
akin, chiefof the staff, standing beside |
this officer, had his hair singed and
suffered severe confusion. Only |
General Skobeleff himself remained |
untouched. He seems to bear a |
charmed life. He visited the redoubt |
three or four times during the day en- !
the soldiers, telling them
help would soon arrive; Plevna would |
soon be taken; victory would soon |
crown their efforts; telling them that |
1t was the final decisive blow struck |
for their country; for the honor and
glory of the Russian arms; and they |
always replied with the same CHEEKY |
shouts, while their numbers were |
dwinling away by hundreds. |
LEFT TO FATE.
He again and again sent for rein
and again and again in
formed the Commander In Chief that
the position was untenable. The
afternoon wore away and no reinforce
ments came. General Levitsky, as /
have been informed, formally refused
endorsements, either because he
thought the position in spite of General
5kobeleff's representations, was tena-
bic, or because he had no reinforce
ments to give. General Krilof on his
own responsibility semitic remnant Of
} regiment which had attacked the
which saw rush forward
and then back through that Indian
corn fed. OF the $500 there were
barely 100 left, 30 IL was utterly In
capable of going into action that day,
and even this regiment arrived too
late. Gen. Skobeleff had left the re-
1oubt at four o'clock to go to his tent
IN q woody hill opposite. He had
been there scarcely an hour when he
was informed that the Turks were
lQain Attacking tha riRht fan 4. Oh the