The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-28

claimed. for knew that they did not en-
| ter through the gate OF the residency. that
| being banked up inside 10 keep the muir
derers out.
Here it is answered my escort Here
It is-the embrasure through which they
| came"
We walked up TO the spot. 1t is now
a broken down pile Of bricks a dozen
| yards from the gate. Long grass now.
but then blood spattered, bullet SCARED
| opening In the wal.
As we stood there, although the scene
was thirty-seven years ago. 1 saw them
| come in--Havelock pale and SICK but
| triumphant, and Outram, whom al the
| equestrian statues in Calcutta and Europe
| cannot too grandly present.
After the Relief.
What then happened?" 1 said TO my
| escort.
"Ohr' he said. that is impossible to
| tell. The earth was removed from the
gate. and soon all the army Of relief en-
| tered. and some of US laughed, and some
| cried. and some prayed, and some danced.
! Highlanders so dust covered and enough
| blood and wounds on their faces to make
| them unrecognizab,e snatched the babes
! out Of their mothers arms and kissed
| them and passed the babies along for other
soldiers 20 kiss. and the wounded men
crawied out of the hospital to join in the
| cheering. and 1t was wild jubilee until the
first excitement passed. The story of how
many Of the advancing army had been
slain on the way began to have fearful
effect. and the story Of suffering that had
been endured inside the fort and the an
| nouncement to the children that they were
fatherless and to wives that they We're
widows submerged the shouts OF JOY with
wai.ing Of agony.
But YOU were not embarrassed by the
arrival Of Havelock and 1,400 men who
brought no food with them?' He an
swered:
"Of course We were put on smaller ra-
tions Immediately in order that they
might share with US, but we knew that
the coming of this reinforcement would
! help us to hold the place until further re-
lief should come. Had not this first relief
arrived as ii did I'm n day or two at most
and perhaps in any hour the besiegers
would have broken in. and our end would
have come. The sepoys had dug SIX
mines under the residency and would soon
have exploded all"
After we had obtained a few bullets
that had been picked out Of the wall and
a piece of Il bOmbshell we walked around
the eloquent ruins and put our hands into
the scars of the shattered masonry and
explored the cemetery inside the fort
where hundreds of the dead soldiers await
the coming of the Lord of Hosts at the last
day. and we could endure no more. My
nerves were all a-tremble, and my emo
tons were wrung out, and l said, Let
us 60"
had seen the residency at Lucknow
the day before with a beloved missionary
and he told me many interesting facts
| concerning the besiegement Of that place,
but this morning had seen it in company
with one who in that awful 1857 OF the
Indian mutiny with his own IRE had
fought the besiegers, and with his own ear
had heard the yell Of the miscreants as
| they tried to storm the walls, and with his
! own eyes had witnessed a scene Of pang
and sacrifice and endurance and bereaVe-
ment and proWesS and rescue winch mas
made all this Lucknow fortress and its
surroundings the Mt. Calvary of the nine
] teenth century.
The Grave of HnveIOcIx.
on the following day, about four miles
| from the residency, I visited the grave of
| HaveIock. The scenes Of hardship and
| self-sacrifice through which he had
passed were too much for mortal endur-
ance. and a few days after HaveloclI left
| the residency which he had relieved he
| Law in a tent dying, while his son, whom
1 saw in London on my way here, was
reading 10 the old hero the cOnso.atory
scriptures. The telegraph wires had tod
| all nations that Havelock was sick unto
| death. He had received the message of
| congra tulation from Queen Victoria over
| his triumphs and had been knighted, and
such a reception as England never gave
| to any man since Wellington came back
| from Waterloo awaited mis- return. But
The viii never again see his native land.
He has led the last army and planned
the last battle. Yet he is to gain another
victory. He declared it when in his last
hours ne said 10 Gen. Outram:
Il die happy and contented. i have
for forty years so ruled my life that
when death came l might face it without
fear. To die is gain"
Indeed this was no new sentimentahty
with him. He once stated that in boy
hood. with four companions, The was ac-
customed 10 seek The "Secusion of one
Of the dormitories for purposes OF devo-
ton, though certain in those days Of be-
ing branded methodists and canting
hypOcrites." He had in early life been
Immersed in a baptist church. He ac-
know,edged God in every victory and
SAYS in one of his dispatches that he
owes it Ito the power Of the Enfield rifle
in British hands. to British pluck and to
the Blessing of Almighty God on a most
righteous cause" He was accustomed
to spend two hours every morning in
prayer and bible reading, and If the army
was to march at s o'clock he rose for the
purposes Of religious devotion at O'clock
and il the army was to march at 6
O'Clock he arose at A.
Sir Henry Havelock, the son in whose
arms the father died, when / came through
London invited three Of the heroes of
Lucknow to meet me at his table and told
me concerning his father some most in
spring and Christian things. He said:
my father knew not what fear was
He would say to me in the morning as he
came out of his tent. Harry, have you
read the book?
Yes
"'Have you said your prayers?
Yes
"'Have you had your breakfast?
Yes
leone, then, and let us mount and go
out TO be shot at and die like gentlemen F."
The three other heroes at Lucknow at
that table told of Gen. Havelock other
things just as stirring What a speech
that was Havelock made to his soldiers as
he started for Cawnpur, Indiai
cover 200 of our race are still alive in
Cawnpur With Gods help we will save
them from death. 1 am trying you severe
ly, my men, but L know what you are
made Of"
The enthusiasm Of his men was well
suggested by the soldier lying asleep, and
| Havelock riding along, his horse stumbled
over the soldier and woke him, and the
soldier, recognizing the general, cried out
cheerily: MAKE room for the generali
God bless the general!'
HaveIock's Immortal Fame.
A plain monument marks Havelock's
ora We but the enitapb is as heautifrtt and