| Description | Written from the Camp before Sebastopol.
Receipy of letters from father and Adolphus: failure of attacks on the Redan and, by the French, on the Round Tower: his being support to a storming party: parade at 12 before being marched to trenches: wait until hour after daybreak and advance on the nearest battery: fire of grape shot on Russian guns, supposed to have been silenced: advance through 300 yards to abattis 30 yards in front of the Redan: his wounding in arm with a spent musket ball, able to do duty again within fortnight: regiment taking a mauling, with only 7 out of 18 unscathed, colonel shot and adjutant Hobson dying later after amputation of leg: 34th and Rifles losing enormous number of men: no figures, but losses great, even though fighting did not last much more than an hour: Light Division, or at least the first brigade, not able to do much more: his being in "perfect health" and good spirits, but with gloom cast by mant casualties: next time to send a plan of the attack to make things clearer.
Sheet, with 7 pages of text, including 3 pages cross-hatched. |