The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-28
The Light Brigade.
ANOTHER GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE
CHARGE OF BAEAKLAvA.

J boston commercial Bulletin the
following graphic picture of the
charge:
"Lord Caidigan's eye glanced
us over; then spurr;ng his horse
forward a few PAGES, he said:
"'My men, we have received or
ders to silence that battery.
"My God 7 my brother ejacu-
lated. Then grasping my band,
he said:
FIRED, my dear fellow, good
bye; We don't know what may hap
pen. God bless you; keep close to
me-'
What more he might have said
was lost III Lord Cardigan's ring
ing shout Of:
"'Charge
| "We went in at a trot; the trot
changed to canter, and the can.
ter to gallop. Through the lines
l.could see Lord Cardigan several
horse-lengths ahead riding us
steadily AS if be was on parade. |
Now, to tell the plain truth, when
We had ridden short distance.
say one hundred PAGES, [ felt ter
ribly afraid. The truth flashed
upon me in nom ment that we were
riding into a position that would
expose us to a fire on both fanks,
as well as the fire from the battery
III front of US, which we had been
instructed to silence. I said to
myself, This is ride to death 7
but said it loud enough for my
brother to hear, and he answered
and said
"There goes the first!'
"The first was Lord Ehcan's aid
deicamp, Capt. Nolan, who, after
making slight detour, was cross
ing our left to joipns in the charge.
A cannon ball had just cut him in (
two AS my brother spoke.
my heart leaped into nv mouth 4
and almost shrieked with fear, {
but i restrained myself, and setting
my teeth hard ! rode on. A mo-
ment later the rfie bullets from the
shatpshooters on the hillside be- '
gan to whistle about our ears. Sad
dies 'were emptied at every step. n
'"Fhen came the whistljng shot
md the shriekins shell and tore $
through our squadrons. mangiing 0
men and horses, plowipg bloody n
arrows through and through our Ii
'ahks. Then my fear left me. My1 b
whole soul became filed with
hirst for revenge, aud I believe @
he same spirit animated every n
nan in the ranks. Their eyes n
lashed and they ground fheir teeth d
nd pressed'cIoser together. The g
cry horses caught the mad spirit,
nd plunged forward as if impa- Of
lent to lead as to our revenge and
heirs. At this time there was not
luch to be seen. A heavy dense u'
Inoke hung over the valley, but no
he flaming mouths of the guns re- 10
called themselves to oureyes every pt
lomentas they belched forth thei, de
'ufderous contents OF shot and 81
aell. "
Nov shot tore through our b'
INKS. cutting red line from flank tn
} flank, then q shell plonghed an va
olique and bloody fnrr0w from
II front to our left rear; anon a be
eochetting shot rose from our TIC
ont ranks. fell into our centre and ca
swed its way to the rear, making we
terrible havoc in its passage. WI
b. that was ride. Horses ran ch
lerless, ard men bareleaded. tir
d splashed with the blood OF t'
cir comrades pressed closer and an
oser and ground their teeth hard OF
and mentally swore deadlier sht
yenge as their numbers grew the
laller. nes
"Alone and in front rode Cardi- po'
p, still Keeping the same distance I
cad. His charger was headed =
: the centre of the battery. ST. ~. ~
ltly we followed him. Up tothis ~. ~
az neither my brother nor'my- ~ ~
t bad received the slightest ~ ~
'ateh, although we were now ~, ~
ing side by side with comrades ~ ~
9 at the start were separated s,a.
90 US by several miles. We his
lched the battery at last Up 80
this time aehad ridenSn silence, 3