The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-12-14

side the resi3oncy while my escort told 0,
the coming OF the Seventy. 2iShtn Highland
Regiment.
We're you present whon Hayeloc& emo
IN: asked, tor couldsuppro5s the Qlas-
zion no longer, His answer came
/ was not at the moment present, bu:
with some other young fellows | saw So,
diors dancing while two highland pipars
played, and said, 'WnaJ is all this excite.
ment| Then we came up and saw that
HaveIock was in, and 0uiram was in, AMI
the regiments Were pouring In"
SHOW us where they came in l ex-
claimed, for knew that they did not enter
through the gate OF the resldency, that be-
ing banked up inside to keep the murderers
out. "Here it is, answered my escort.
"Here it is-the embrasure through which
they came"
We walked up to the spot. It Is nova
broken down pile OF bricks a dozen yarls
from the gate Long grass now, but then a
blood spattered, bullet scattered opening in
the wall
AS we stood there, although the scene WAS
thirty seven years ago, 1 saw them come IN
-Hayelock pale and sick, but triumphant
and Outram, whom all the equestrian statues
in Calcutta and Europe cannot too grandly
present.
''Wnat then happened?' sNid to my es-
coTt. ooh, he said, "that is impossible to
tell. The earth was removed from the gate,
and soon all the army OF relief entered, and
some Of US laughed. and some cried. and
some prayed. and some danced. Highlan-
ders so dust covered and enough blood and
wounds on their faces to make them I'M
recognizable snatched the babes ont OF
their mothers arms and kissed them and
passed the babies along for other SOL
diers to kiss, and the wounded men
crawed out Of the hospital to join in the
cheering. and il was wild jubilee until. tho
first excitement passed. the story Of how
mauy Of the advancing army had been
slain on the way began 70 have fearful
effect, and the story Of suffering that had
been endured inside the tort. and the an
nouncement to children TINT they wera
iatherless, AMI TO wives that they We're
widows, submerged the shouts OF JOY with
waiting OF agony.
''But were YOU not embarrassed by the ar
rival OF Haveock and 1900 men who brought
no food with themW He answered 80,
course we were put on smaller rations in
mediately in order that they might share
with us, but We knew that the coming o his
reinforcement would help Us TO hold the
place until further relief should come. Had
not this first relief arrived as it did in Il 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 Il piecs
OF the bombshel, we walked around the elo-
quent 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 ofthe
Lord OF Hosts at the last day, and we
could endure no more. My nerves were
all a-trem5e, and my emotions were
wrung out. and 1 said, "Let us GO
had seen the residency at Lucknow the
day before with a beloved missionary,
and he told me many interesting facts con-
corning the besiegement OF that place, but
this morning had seen 1t in company with
one who in that awful 1857 OF the Indian
mutiny with his own fire had fought the be-
siegers, and with his own ear had heard tire
yell OF the miscreants rs they tried TO storm
the walls, and with his own eyes had wit
messed Il scene OF pang ana sacrifice and en-
durance and bereavement and proves and
rescue which has made all this Lucknow
fortress and its surroundings the Mount CAL
vary OF the nineteenth century.
On the following day, about four miles
from the residency, l visited the grave OF
HavelocE. The scenes of hardship ami self
sacrifice through which he had passed were
too much for mortal endurance, and a few
days after Havelock left the residency which
he had relieved he lay in a tent a-dying.
while his son, whom saw in London on my
way here, was reading to the old hero thu
consolatory Scriptures. The telegrap l
wires had told all Nations that Have
lock was sick unto death. He hal
received the MESA &c of congratulation fro
Queen Victoria over his trlumphs AMI hal
been knightei, aul SUCH reception ns En- =
land never gaveto any man since yelling
Ton came back from Waterloo awaited pi5
return. But he will never again see his l.
tive land. He has led his last army an
planned the last battle. Yet he IS to gain
another victory. He declared it when in
his last hours he saidto General Outran III
die happy aud contente1. [ have for forty
years so ruled my life that when death came
l might face it without fear. To diei1
gain" Indeed this was no new sentimel
tally with him. He once stated that iT
boyhood with Jour companions he was &C
customed to seek the "secusion off o
the dormitories for purposes of devotion
though certain in those days OF being brand
ed as Methodists and canting hypocrites.
| He had in early life been immersed in u Bap
tist church. He acknowledged Go1in ever
| victory an says in one of his disprtc le
that he owes it "to the power of the Enti3lC
| rife in British hands. to British pluck and tc
the blessin; OF Almighty Go on a mos
righteous cause" He was accustomed to
| spent two hours every morning IN prayer
and Bible rellins, AMI II the army WIS to
| march at 8 O'Clock he arose for purposes o
religious devotion at O'clock, ant ii tn.
army was to mlrcl at 6o'eiocS hs arose at l.
A plain monument MARKS HaY9IocSr
grave, tut the eptapn is as beautiful IN
! comprehensive as anythiuy hava everse3n,
and / copied it then aud there, AMI it is a
! follows: "Here rest the mortal rsmaln1 o
Henry HavelocS, major general in tue Belt
ISL army aud Knight C)mnau Ter OF tue
Bath, VINO died at Dilkoosla Lucknow o
dysentry pro lucel by the hariships OF q
campaign in which he achieved immorta
fame, on the Oath OF November, 1851
He was born on the 9th OF April, 1875. a
Bishops. Wernouth County. Durhnm, Eng
Ian /. Entered the army 1915. Came to In
dia 1923 an servel there with little inter