The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-05

eAS enemy ) DTeaSLWOrkS, w olSeTey en-
| countered the first serious risk of his
! life. The treacherous earth gave way
under him and he fell into a concealled
| plt-technicaly a trou-de-loup-th bot
! tom of which was thickly studded with
! pointed stakes. Between those OBJ
stdcIeS ana The enemyS close ire
! directed on the lone man, he had an
! extremely unpleasant quarter of an
! hour, but presently was able to rejoIn
his detachment which had fallen back,
and got scattered. He rallied it, how
I ever, and. shaken as hei was by the
/ earlier accident which had befallen
! him, he, later in the day, volunteered
to lead a second storning party, whose
! attempt resulted in complete success.
! Lieutenant Taylor headed a detach-
ment of the Fifty-first. Wolseley was
! followed by his party of the Eightieth,
! and the two gallant youngsters raced
neck and neck along the narrow path
! leading up TO the breastworks. Almost
at the same moment, while we'll ahead
! of their followers, and Straining every
nerve for the honor Of being foremost
inside the hostile works, both were shot
down, wounded, strange to say, exact
ly in the same place. A large iron jim
gall ball had struck Wolseley in the
left thigh, tearing away the muscles
and surrounding flesh; but fortunately
the femoral artery, although laid bare,
was not severed. In The case OF his
gallant companion and competitor, the
artery was cut, and poor Taylor bled
to death in a few minutes Wolseley,
staunching the flow of his blood by
manual compression, lay helpless on his
back, yet he continued to wave his
sword and cheer on his men, refusing
to be removed until he had seen the
enemy's position carried by his brave
soldiers For months his life hung ON
thread. owing to the constant danger
of the artery sloughing; but, thanks to
q sound constitution, no permanent in
jury was sustained.
Recovered from his Burmese wound,
WOlseley in the autumn Of 1858 was
promoted to a lieutenancy without pur-
chase in the Ninetieth regiment-the
"Perthshire Light infantry" or more
Familiarity, the Grey BreekS,' in which
he was destined to serve while he re-
manned a regimental officer. The Nine
tieUh had been warned for service in
India, and Wolseley and brother Off
Ger had made arrangements for an ex-
change into a regiment before Sebasto-
pol; when, as the result of the heavy
losses incurred in the battle Of mixer
man, Lord Raglan made an urgent de-
mand for reanforcementS, and the Nine
tieth was promptly dispatched to the
Crimea- The regiment landed at Bala-
olaVa on December 4, 1854. marched
straight to the front, and on the fol-
lowing morning began its service in the
trenches in face of Sebastopol. The
bitter winter had SIT in, the troops on
the CherSoneSe were in rags, over
worked, insufficiently fed" and already
dying like flies The officers we're in
not much better case. Uniform was
discarded, and there among them were
men. as Josephine said of Murat, who
i 0ff II
who would put their Creator to the
sword without scruple." Among these
tatterdemalions appeared Wolseley-
smart, dapper, regimentally attired. He
retained much of his neatness through
out the long cruel winter, and had the
reputation Of wearing clean and
starched shirt collars longer than amy
other man in camp, outside Of the head
Quarter staff He was soon withdrawn
form his regiment, for such was the
excessive strain on the engineer officers
engaged in the siege operations chat
Wolseley was almost Immediately sum
moned to take up the duties of an act
ing engineer, which he continued to
perform during the protracted siege.
SEVERELY WOUNDED BEFORE
SEBASTOPOL.
During the nine months he served be-
fore Sebastopol Wolseley was as often
in the trenches as any officer in the ar
my. He was one of the two survivors
Of the fourteen engineer officers of the
right attack. He was once dangerously
wounded, and several times slightly.
A round shot striking the embraSur6
at which he was working, carried away
part of his clothing; a bullet passed
through his forage cap from peak to
back knocking it off his head. Of three
messes, each consisting of four mem
bers, to which he had belonged, he
was the only officer who went through
the campaign, all the others being
either killed or forced to leave the
Crimea because of wounds. Always in
the front, always ardent in fighting, ex-
posing himself continually without
stint, it seemed as if he bore a charmed
life.
1t was before Sebastopol, in the final
~ successful attempt to gain and MAIN
tain a lodgment in 1.-The Quarries, that
Wolseley underwent, in his own words,
"the hardest twenty-four hours work
of his life" Early in the morning Of
June 6, 1855, he was ordered to take
the place of an officer who had Just
been killed. All the livelong day he
was hard at work as the only engineer
officer Of the right attack. under a con-
slant and furious bombardment. In
the evening UG dCCUuI pdLl6u LIE IOTC6
detailed for the assault of the Quarries,
with directions to construct a commu-
nication between the advanced parallel
and them. Thrice during the night did
the occupancy of the Quarries change
hands; each time with desperate hand
to-hand fighting, in which Wolseley was
ever in the front Of the bloody struggle.
In the intervals between the assaults
and counter assaults, he busted himself
in constructing a rudimentary parapet,
chiefly of the bodies of the fallen,
friends or foe Unfortunately as some
protection to the fighting men. So
spent were the British soldiers by the
long struggle of the night, that it was
in vain the officers strove to rouse them
from the slumber of utter exhaustion.
Tn the gray dawn there was seen
dense column of Russian troops ad-
vancing to the recovery of the Quar-
ries. In this crisis. the British officers
and non-commisst oned officers, number
ing all told under a, hundred, showed
a gallant front. and opened fire on the
advancing hostile column, one and all
cheering loudly while the bugles