The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-24

On. duu dS We tdLllG up 70 Luel dI luAA
gallop we could see the Rus
slams pulling back on their horses.
] was the first one through
/ the ranks, but 1t was not much like paper.
! got lance cut in my hand, and three
| men fell near me- AS we went through,
! Others of our men galloped round the
1 tanks. Then we had to pass a body OF
infantry and they fired volley into US.
II was there Wightman fell. He and
/ Marshall were captured, one with nine
/ and the other with thirteen wounds, but
/ both survived. 1t was still several hun
/ dred yards to the guns, which were again
/ manned and in action. We charged
4 through them and scattered up the valley.
1 Two or three men kept close to me. We
rode on the slope of the hill, not In the
/ track we had followed going down.
1--WE were the last to get back The
/ skeleton lines of the regiments were on
1 parade, the roll had been called and
| Cardigan had made his speech before we
/ got there We had forty-hYe 70 an
| swer to the call of our regiment. They
/ went into action 145. OF the whole brig
/ ade, go, there were 1875 To answer roll
! call All of them had some bloody mark
except Lord Cardigan. His clothes were
cut, but l believe he did not have a
scratch. My recollection is that he was
the only one who went through the en-
gagement without bloodshed There is
quite scar on my right hand, but never
thought of taking the wound to a surgeon
then.
ENGLISH SOLDIERS.
people often seem to think the most
remarkable thing in the whole affair was
the amount of fighting that was done
after we got down to the guns. 1t seems
incredible that whole army should have
been thrown into confusion and momen-
tarily into retreat by a handful of men
who had been almost cut to pieces |
have been asked why we thought of such
thing as capturing the guns, and all
that. | can only say, English soldiers are
not like any others. They are not worth
anything at digging trenches and such
work. have set a squad of them to dig
a grave and had them all day about it,
but they certainly will fight when their
blood is up, and it is up all the time. The
ride down the valley only took about five
minutes. Kinglake says eight, but l
could have run il on foot in five minutes.
l was the champion runner of my regi-
ment, and we went at a gallop. We were
twenty minutes in behind the
dozen or more charges at the Russian
troops before we started back. We
jumped of our horses to fight and cap
ture the cannon / spoke of. | never could
see why Lord Cardigan said he could see
none of his men and made no effort to
rally them there. l saw him, but only
at first, as he turned and rode back alone
volumes have been written about the
mistake. Nolan tried TO save US but fell
dead. He was understood by some, as
was shown by the 'Threes right order
of Capt, Winter, but it was too late. Capt.
| Winter was killed too. 1t was easy to
lay the blame on Nolan because he was
| dead.
AFTER THE BATTLE.
THAT whole affair, you know, was on
an empty stomach. We had not eaten
any rations even, though the Russians
said we must have been drunk to fight so
like mad. AT night we fell back behind
the intrenchments. During the night
some troops of horses broke loose from
the Russisns and came galloping up on
u.s. at first we thought il was an attack,
and the artillery fired on them. We
captured the horses and saddles, about
800 of them.
"Balaklava was on Oct. %, 1854. Inker-
man was ten days after. 1t was during
| the battle of Inkerman that dismounted
under fire and brought off Cornet Cleve-
land wounded. He is alive now. have
letter from my commander, Lord Trede-
gar, speaking of it. After Inkerman there
was a big snow storm, and snow lay
on the ground all winter. The Balaklava
battle-ground was within the Russian
lines. Toward spring the Russian army
/ fell back. AS the snow melted off l went
out very early one morning and walked
over the ground. | saw an officers sword
very rusty, from lying out all winter, and
picked it up. l have it now. The Rus
SLAMS had pretended to bury the dead, but
they only threw dirt over them aud the
rains had washed out q good many bodies.
l saw an officers body in the uniform of
the Eighth Hussars, and believe it was
Lord Fitzgibbons / could see the tar
nished gold lace on the uniform. When
the field was taken charge OF by the En-
glish some of these uncovered remains
were taken up and sent home.
ANNUAL BANQUET OF SURVIVORS.
"The annual banquet of the Com
memoratlon Society gets to be smaller
affair every year. l always receive an in
vitation. The others are all in England
! The roll for December, 1898, shows
! eighty-three names, twenty of them of
| my regiment This society has no men,
! bers that did not ride in the charge of
| the 800. OF course there are lots of men
! living who were in the 10000 general
troops engaged at Balaklava, and the sur
i vivors of the Light Brigade have
| plenty of volunteers TO swell their
| ranks, but the society keeps
records, and it is very easy to
verify or disprove a mans record in that
| affair. What relics have of the battle
lnIenu 10 give 10 Jne NaIlOnal Museum at
my death. AS none of the others ever
fought in the civil war or became citizens
Of the United States, think they will
have good deal of interest for people in
the future"
Capt. Morley has one boy named Bala-
klava, and one named Alma Havelock.
Probably his children will not need to be
reminded by these names of the stirring
events in which their father played so
brave a part. L. b. BROCK.