congregated, and were keeping up a brisk fire parapet of the salient, which was crowded by on the Russians, whose heads were just visible the men of the Light Division, and on the above the breastwork. Simultaneously with gaps through the inner parapet of the Redan, the head of the storming party of the Light and our men, with an infatuation which all Division, Colonel Windham had got inside the officers deplore, but cannot always remedy on Redan on their right, below the salient on the such occasions, began to return the fire of the proper left face of the Redan, but in spite of enemy without advancing or crossing behind all his exertions, could do little more than the the traverses, loaded and fired as quickly as gallant officers of the 90th and 97th, and of they could, but did but little execution as the the supporting regiments. Russians were well covered by the breast work. As the Light Division rushed out in the There were also groups of Russian riflemen front they were swept by the guns of the Bar- behind the lower traverses near the base of rack Battery and by several pieces on the pro- the Redan who kept up a galling fire on our per right of the Redan, loaded heavily with men. As the alarm of an assault was spread grape, which caused them considerable loss the enemy came rushing up from the barracks ere they reached the salient or apex of the in rear of the Redan, and increased the force work at which they were to assault. The and intensity of their fire, while our soldiers storming columns of the Second Division issu- dropped fast and encouraged the Russians by ing out of the fifth parallel rushed up imme- their immobility and the weakness of their fudiately after the Light Division, but when they silade, from which the enemy were well procame up close to the apex Brigadier Wind- tected. In vain the officers, by voice and act, ham very judiciously brought them by a by example and daring, tried to urge our solslight detour on the right flank of the Light diers on. They had an impression that the Division, so as to come a little down on the slope of the proper left face of the Redan. The first embrasure to which they came was in flames, but, moving on to the next, the men leaped into the ditch, and, with the aid of ladders and of each other's hands, scrambled up on the other side, climbed the parapet, or poured in through the embrasure which was undefended. Colonel Windham was the first or one of the very first men in on this side, and with him entered Daniel Mahoney, a great grenadier of the 41st, Killeany and Cornellis of the same regiment. As Mahoney entered with a cheer, he was shot through the head by a Russian rifleman, and fell dead across Colonel Windham, and at the same moment Killeany and Cornellis were both wounded. The latter claims the reward of £5 offered by Colonel Herbert to the first man of his division who entered the Redan.

Redan was all mined, and that if they advanced they would all be blown up, but many of them acted as became the men of Alma and Inkermann, and, rushing to the front, were swept down by the enemy's fire. The officers fell on all sides, singled out for the enemy's fire by their courage. The men of the different regiments became mingled together in inextricable confusion. The 19th men did not care for the orders of the officers of the 88th, nor did the soldiers of the 23rd heed the commands of an officer who did not belong to his regiment. The officers could not find their men-the men had lost sight of their own of ficers. All the Brigadiers, save Colonel Windham, were wounded or rendered unfit for the guidance of the attack. That gallant officer did all that man could do to form his men for the attack, and to lead them against the enemy. Proceeding from traverse to traverse, he Running parallel to the faces of the Redan coaxed the men to come out, and succeeded there is, as I have described, an inner parapet several times in forming a few of them, but intended to shield the gunners at the embra- they melted away as fast as he laid hold of sures from the effects of any shell which might them, and either fell in their little ranks or refall into the body of the work, and strike them tired to cover to keep up their fusilade. Many down if this high bank were not there to pro- of them crowded to lower parts of the inner tect them from the splinters. Several cuts in parapet and kept up a smart fire on the enemy, the rear of the embrasures permitted the men but nothing would induce them to come out to retire in case of need inside, and very strong into the open space and charge the breastand high traverses ran all along the sides of work. This was all going on at the proper the work itself to afford them additional shelter. left face of the Redan, while nearly the same At the base of the Redan, before the reëntering scene was being repeated at the salient. Every angles, is a breast work, or, rather, a parapet moment our men were diminishing in numbers, with an irregular curve, up to a man's neck, while the Russians came up in swarms from which runs in front of the body of the place. the town, and rushed down from the MalakAs our men entered through the embrasures, hoff, which had now been occupied by the the few Russians who were between the salient French. Thrice did Colonel Windham send and this breastwork retreated behind the lat- officers to Sir E. Codrington, who was in the ter and got from the traverses to its protection. fifth parallel, begging of him to send up supFrom it they poured in a quick fire on the ports in some order of formation; but all these

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three officers were wounded as they passed resolved to go to General Codrington him from the ditch of the Redan to the rear, and self. Seeing Captain Crealock, of the 90th, the Colonel's own aid-de-camp, Lieutenant near him busy in encouraging his men, and Swire, of the 17th, a gallant young officer, was exerting himself with great courage and ener hit dangerously in the hip, as he went on his gy to get them into order, he said,—" I must perilous errand. Supports were, indeed, sent go to the General for supports. Now mind, up, but they came up in disorder from the let it be known, in case I am killed, why Í fire to which they were exposed on their way, went away." and arrived in driblets only to increase the ditch and succeeded in gaining the fifth paralconfusion and the carnage. Finding that he lel through a storm of grape and rifle bullets He crossed the parapet and could not collect any men on the left face, in safety. Sir Edward Codrington asked him Colonel Windham passed through one of the if he thought he really could do anything with cuts of the inner parapet and walked over to such supports as he could afford, and said he the right face at the distance of thirty yards might take the Royals, who were then in the from the Russian breast work, to which he parallel. "Let the officers come out in front moved in a parallel line, exposed to a close let us advance in order, and if the men fire, but, wonderful to say, without being keep their formation the Redan is ours," was touched. When he got behind the inner par- the Colonel's reply; but he spoke too lateapet at the right face he found the same state for at that very moment our men were seen of things as that which existed at the left. The leaping down into the ditch, or running down men were behind the traverses, firing away at the parapet of the salient, and through the the Russians or blazing at them from the bro- embrasures out of the work into the ditch, ken parts of the front, and the soldiers who while the Russians followed them with the came down from the salient in front only got bayonet and with heavy musketry, and even behind these works for cover while they load- threw stones and grapeshot at them as they ed and fired at the enemy. some riflemen and a few men of the 88th to- sians having accumulated several thousands of The Colonel got lay in the ditch. The fact was that the Rusgether, but no sooner had he brought them out men behind the breastwork, and seeing our than they were killed, wounded, or dispersed men all scattered up and confused behind the by a concentrated fire. The officers, with the inner parapet of the traverse, crossed the noblest devotion, aided Colonel Windham, breastwork, through which several field pieces and became the special marks of the enemy's were now playing with grape on the inner riflemen. The narrow neck of the salient was face of the Redan, and charged our broken too close to allow of any kind of formation, groups with the bayonet, at the same time that and the more the men crowded into it the the rear ranks, getting on the breastwork, more they got out of order, and the more they poured a heavy hail of bullets on them over suffered from the enemy's fire. This misera- the heads of the advancing column. ble work lasted for an hour. were now in dense masses behind the breast- perate, and bloody. Our soldiers, taken at The Russians work, and Colonel Windham walked back every disadvantage, met the enemy with the The struggle that took place was short, desagain across the open space to the left to make bayonet too, and isolated combats took place one more attempt to retrieve the day. The in which the brave fellows who stood their men on the parapet of the salient, who were ground had to defend themselves against three firing at the Russians, sent their shot about or four adversaries at once. him, and the latter, who were pouring volley officers, armed only with their swords, had litafter volley on all points of the head of the tle chance; nor had those who carried pistols In this mêlée the work, likewise directed their muskets against much opportunity of using them in such a bim, but he passed through this cross fire in rapid contest. safety, and got within the inner parapet on many a gallant soldier with them. The bodies the left, where the men were becoming thin- of English and Russians inside the Redan, They fell like heroes, and ner and thinner. A Russian officer now step- locked in an embrace which death could not ped over the breastwork, and tore down a relax, but had rather cemented all the closer, gabion with his own hands; it was to make lay next day inside the Redan as evidences of room for a field piece. Colonel Windham ex- the terrible animosity of the struggle. But claimed to several soldiers who were firing the solid weight of the advancing mass, urged over the parapet, "Well, as you are fond of on, and fed each moment from the rear by firing, why don't you shoot that Russian ?" company after company and battalion after They fired a volley and missed him,and soon battalion, prevailed at last against the isolated afterwards the field piece began to play on the and disjointed band, who had abandoned the head of the salient with grape. Colonel Wind-protection of unanimity of courage and had ham saw there was no time to be lost. He had lost the advantages of discipline and obedisent three officers for reinforcements and, ence. above all, for men in formation, and he now vanced into the sea and forced back the waters As though some giant rock had ad

that buffeted it, so did the Russian columns almost ceased along our front, but in the rear press down against the spray of soldiery which of the Malakhoff there was a fierce contest gofretted their edge with fire and steel and con- ing on between masses of Russians, now retended in vain against their weight. The leased from the Redan, or drawn from the struggling band was forced back by the ene- town, and the French, inside the work; and my, who moved on, crushing friend and foe the fight for the Little Redan, on the proper beneath their solid tramp, and, bleeding, pant- left of the Malakhoff, was raging furiously. ing, and exhausted, our men lay in heaps in Clouds of smoke and dust covered the scene, the ditch beneath the parapet, sheltered them- but the rattle of musketry was incessant, and selves behind stones and in bomb-craters in betokened the severe nature of the struggle, the slope of the work, or tried to pass back to below. Through the breaks in the smoke our advanced parallel and sap, and had to run there could be seen now and then a tricolor, the gauntlet of a tremendous fire. Many of surmounted by an eagle, fluttering bravely them lost their lives, or were seriously wound- over the inner parapet of the Malakhoff. The ed in this attempt. The scene in the ditch storm of battle rolled fiercely round it, and was appalling, although some of the officers beat against it; but it was sustained by strong have assured me that they and the men were arms and stout hearts, and all the assaults of laughing at the precipitation with which many the enemy were directed in vain against it. brave and gallant fellows did not hesitate from We could see, too, our noble allies swarming plunging headlong upon the mass of bayonets, over into the Malakhoff from their splendid muskets, and sprawling soldiers-the ladders approaches to it from the Mamelon, or rushing were all knocked down or broken, so that it with swift steps towards the right, where the was difficult for the men to get up at the Russians, continually reinforced, sought in other side, and the dead, the dying, the vain to beat back their foes and to regain the wounded, and the sound were all lying in key of their position. The struggle was full heaps together. The Russians came out of of interest to us all, but its issue was never the embrasures, plied them with stones, grape doubted. It would be untrue to say that the shot, and the bayonet, but were soon forced result of our assault was not the source of to retire by the fire of our batteries and rifle- deep grief and mortification to us, which all men, and under cover of this fire many of our the glorious successes of our allies could not men escaped to the approaches. In some in- wholly alleviate. Even those who thought stances the enemy persisted in remaining out- any attack on the Redan useless and unwise, side in order to plunder the bodies of those inasmuch as the possession of the Malakhoff who were lying on the slope of the parapet, would, in their opinion, render the Redan unand paid the penalty of their rashness in being tenable, could not but regret bitterly that, as stretched beside their foes; but others came we had given the assault, we had not achieved forth on a holier errand and actually brought a decisive triumph, and that so much blood water to our wounded. If this last act be had been, if not ingloriously, at least fruittrue, it is but right to discredit the story that lessly, poured forth. the Russians placed our wounded over the The French, indeed, have been generous magazine in the rear of the Redan, near the enough to say that our troops behaved with Barrack Battery, ere they fired it-the only great bravery, and that they wondered how foundation for which, as far as I can discover, is we kept the Redan so long under such a trethat many of the bodies of our men found in mendous fire; but British soldiers are rather the Redan were dreadfully scorched and accustomed to the nil admirari under such burnt; but there were many Russians lying circumstances, and praise like that gives pain there in a similar state. General Pelissier as well as pleasure. Many soldiers, of the observed the failure of our attack from the opinion to which I have alluded, think that we rear of the Malakhoff, and sent over to Gen- should at once have renewed the attempt eral Simpson to ask if he intended to attack once made, and it is but small consolation to again. The English Commander-in-Chief is them to know that General Simpson intended reported to have replied that be did not then to attack the Redan the following morning, feel in a condition to do so. All this time the inasmuch as the Russians anticipated our proGuards and Highlanders, the Third and bable success, and by retreat deprived us of Fourth Divisions, and most of the reserves the chance of retrieving our reputation, and were untouched. They could, indeed, have at the same time acknowledged, by their des furnished materials for another assault, but perate withdrawal, the completeness of the the subsequent movements of the Russians success achieved by our allies. render it doubtful whether the glory of carrying the Redan, and of redeeming the credit of our arms, would not have been dearly purchased by the effusion of more valuable blood. As soon as we abandoned the assault the firing

Our attack lasted about an hour and three quarters, as well as I could make out, and in that time we lost more men than at Inkermann, where the fighting 'asted for seven hours. At 1 48 p.m., which was about the time we re

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tired, there was an explosion either of a tum-men. bril or of a fougasse between the Mamelon wounded men, some of whom had left their and the Malakhoff, to the right, which seemed arms behind them, gave rise to suspicions of the The rapidly-increasing numbers of to blow up several Frenchinen, and soon af- truth; but their answers to many eager questerwards the artillery of the Imperial Guard tioners were not very decisive or intelligible, swept across from the rear towards the Little and some of them did not even know what Redan, and gave us an indication that our al- they had been attacking. One poor young lies had gained a position from which they fellow who was marching stiffly up with a brocould operate against the enemy with their ken arm and a ball through his shoulder, carfield pieces. From the opening of the attack ried off his firelock with him, but he made the the French batteries over Careening Bay had naive confession that he had "never fired it off, not ceased to thunder against the Russian fleet, for he could not." The piece turned out to be which lay silently at anchor below, and there in excellent order. It struck one that such was a lively cannonade between them and the men as these, however brave, were scarce Inkermann batteries till the evening, which ly a fit match for the well-drilled soldiers of was interrupted now and then by the inter- Russia; and yet we were trusting the honor, vention of the Redoubt Victoria, the English reputation, and glory of Great Britain to unRedoubt, and the late Selinghinsk and Volhy- disciplined lads from the plough, or the lanes nia redoubts, which engaged the Russian bat- of our towns and villages! As one example teries over the last end of the harbor. At one of the sort of recruits we have received here o'clock wounded men began to crawl up from recently I may mention that there was a conthe batteries to the camp; they could tell us siderable number of men in draughts which little or nothing. "Oh, yes; but a lot of them was killed, and Division who had only been enlisted a few "Were we in the Redan?" came out last week to regiments in the Fourth the Russians were mighty strong." Some were days, and who had never fired a rifle in their cheery, others desponding; all seemed proud lives! It must not be imagined that such rawof their wounds. the number of wounded increased; they efficiency out here, for the fact is that this Half-an-hour more, and ness can be corrected and turned into military came up by twos and threes, and-what I had siege has been about the worst possible school observed before as a bad sign-the number of for developing the courage and manly self-re stragglers accompanying them, under the pre-liance of a soldier; neither does it teach him tence of rendering assistance, became greater the value of discipline and of united action. also. Then the ambulances and the cacolets When he goes into the trenches he learns to (or mule litters) came in sight along the Wo- dodge behind gabions and to take pot shots ronzoff-road filled with wounded. Every ten from behind stones and parapets, and at the minutes added to their numbers, and we could same time he has no opportunity of testing the see that every effort was made to hurry them value of his comrades, or of proving himself down to the front as soon as they were ready against the enemy on the open field. The for a fresh load. The litter-bearers now add- natural result follows. Nor was it ominous of ed to the length of the melancholy train. We good that there have been two courts of inheard that the temporary hospitals in front quiry recently on the conduct of two most dis were full, and that the surgeons were begin- tinguished regiments-one, indeed, belonging ning to get anxious about accommodation for to the highest rank of our infantry, and the the wounded. It may here be observed that other a well-tried and gallant regiment, which on the occasion of the 18th of June some of was engaged in this very attack, in consequence these temporary hospitals, which are intended of the misconduct of their young soldiers durto afford immediate aid in cases requiring ope- ing night affairs in the trenches. The old sol rations on the spot, were under fire, and a diers behaved admirably, and stood by their shell burst in the very tent in which Dr. Payn- officers to the last; nor was there any lack of ter and his assistants were operating, the courage among the young lads just joined, ground around it being continually torn up but they were wanting in discipline and in by round shot. On this occasion more care confidence in their officers. No one can doubt was taken in determining the sites of the tents. that the assault by the third and Fourth Divi Another bad sign was that the enemy never sions would have been quite successful had it. ceased throwing up which burst high in the air over our heads, in the Green-hill Battery till six o'clock, at shell to the front, many of been necessary. General Simpson remained while the pieces flew with a most unpleasant which hour General Pelissier sent to inform whir around us. These shells were intended him that the Malakhoff was quite safe, and for our reserves; and although the fuses did to ask him what the English intended to do not burn long enough for such a range, and with respect to the Redan. General Simp they all burst at a considerable elevation, son had by this time arrived at the deter they caused some little injury and annoyance mination of attacking it the following morning to the troops in the rear, and hit some of our at five o'clock with the Third and Fourth D

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visions. The difficulty of getting accurate in- ulary, was adjutant of the regiment, and was formation of the progress of an action cannot as remarkable for his unostentatious piety be better exemplified than by this fact, that at and Christian virtues as for his bravery and three o'clock a General of Division did not conduct in the field. Captain Lumley is danknow whether we had taken the Redan or gerously, Captain Sibthorp, Captain Woods, not. Towards dusk the Guards who had been Lieutenant Goodenough, Ensigns Hill and placed in reserve behind our Right Attack Fitzgerald and Browne are slightly wound were marched off to their camp, and a portion ed. The rest of the division was engaged of the Highlanders were likewise taken off in supporting the storming columns. the ground. The Guards only arrived from the 7th Royal Fusileers Lieutenant Wright the trenches this morning, but to their great and Lieutenant Colt were killed; Major Turcredit be it said, they turned again without a ner, Captain Heyland, Captain Hibbert, Lieumurmur after a rest of a couple of hours for tenant Hickie, and Lieutenant Jones (Alma), breakfast, although they had been "on" for were wounded. 67 men were wounded, and forty-eight hours previously. The third Divi-11 killed. In the 23d (Royal Welsh Fusision and a portion of the Highlanders were leers) Lieutenant Somerville and Lieutenant sent down to do the French duties in the even- Gubby are dead; the first was killed, the lating and night. ter died of his wounds the following morning. From the following statement of the loss in Lieutenant-Colonel Lysons is slightly woundthe Light Division it will be seen that this gal-ed, and the following officers are more or less lant body which behaved so well at the Alma, injured by shot, shell, or bayonet ;-Captain and maintained its reputation at Inkermann, Vane, Lieutenant Poole, Lieutenant Millett, suffered as severely as it did in gaining the Lieutenant Tupper, Ensign O'Connor, and former great victory, and an examination of Ensigns Redcliffe, Perrott, and Beek; 130 the return, which is tolerably correct, and is men wounded; killed not known. In the certainly rather under the mark, will, I fear, 33d Lieutenant Donovan, a most promising show that the winter, the trenches, and care- and dashing officer, lost his life while looking less recruiting have done their work, and that over the parapet at the fight. He accompa the officers furnished a noble example of de- nied the regiment as an amateur, in company votion and gallantry, which their men did not with his brother, all through Bulgaria, and imitate. In the Light Division there are 73 went into action with them at the Alma as a afficers and 964 men wounded-total, 1,037. volunteer, where he so much distinguished himself that the Colonel recommended him for a commission, which he received without The number of officers killed amounts to purchase. Lieutenant-Colonel Gough, who 13; of men killed to 94-total, 107. The re- was shot through the body at the Alma, was giments of the division which furnished storm- severely wounded; Captain Ellis and Lieutening columns were the 90th (or Perthshire vo- ants Willis and Trant were slightly, and the lunteers) and the 97th (or Earl of Ulster's.) Adjutant, Tonsell, severely wounded; 45 men In the 90th Captain Preston and Lieutenant wounded, killed not known. In the 34th, Swift and Lieutenant Willmer were killed. which was in the parallel behind the columns, Lieutenant Swift got the farthest of all those Lieutenants Harris and Laurie are severely who entered the Redan, and his dead body wounded, and 62 men are wounded. In the was discovered far in advance. Captain 19th nearly every officer was touched more or Grove, Captain Tinling, Captain Wade, and less, but none were killed; 148 men were Lieutenant Vaughan, were all severely; Cap- wounded, and 27 were killed. The officers tain Perrin slightly; Lieutenant Rattray, Lieu- wounded are-Colonel Unett severely; Major tenant Rouss, Lieutenant Raitt, and Lieuten- Warden, slightly; Captain Chippendall, ditto; ants Graham and Haydock, slightly wound-Lieutenants Godfrey, Martin, Doran, and ed; 125 men were wounded; killed not Massey, dangerously; Molesworth, severely; known. In the 97th Lieutenant-Colonel the Bailey, slightly; Ensign Martin, slightly; and Hon. H. R. Handcock, Major Welsford, and Ensign Young, dangerously. In the 77th 42 Lieutenant Douglas M'Gregor, were killed, 114 men were wounded; killed not known; Capmen were wounded, and 37 were killed. The tain Parker killed. Wounded, Captain Butts colonel was shot through the head, and was slightly; Lieutenants Knowles, Legatt, and carried to his tent, but the ball lodged in the Watson, ditto. In the 88th Regiment, 105 brain, he never was sensible, and expired that men were wounded; killed about 25. Capmight. His widow was watching the progress tain Grogan was killed; Lieutenant-Colonel of the struggle from the Picket-house, and all Maxwell, C. B., was wounded twice in the her worst fears were soon realized, for her thigh and once in the arm severely, but not husband's body was brought by the very place dangerously. Captains Mauleverer and Be where she stood. Lieutenant M'Gregor, the resford; Lieutenants Lambert, Hopton, Scott, son of the Inspector-General of Irish Constab-and Waterer; and Ensign Walker, are wound

The loss of this division was 1,001 in killed and wounded at the Alma.