214 MAJOR W. HODSON. 



Beclier, quartermaster - general, was shot through 

 the right arm, and Captain Daly was badly hit 

 through the shoulder. " The consequence is," says 

 Hodson, " that I have in effect to see to the whole 

 work of the quartermaster-general of the army ; and 

 in addition the general has begged me as a personal 

 favour to take command of the Guides until Daly 

 has recovered. I at first refused, but the general 

 was most urgent, putting it on the ground that the 

 service was at stake, and none was so fit, &c., &c. 

 I do feel that we are bound to do our best just now 

 to put things on a proper footing, and after consult- 

 ing Seaton and Norman, I accepted the command. 

 . . . General Barnard has written most strongly in 

 my favour, and has voluntarily pledged himself to 

 get me my majority as soon as ever I am a captain. 

 I confess I feel a little proud at being earnestly re- 

 quested to take again the command of which the 

 machinations of my enemies had deprived me." 



As early, indeed, as June 16 Sir H. Barnard had 

 requested the adjutant-general to bring to the notice 

 of the new commander-in-chief. Sir Patrick Grant, 

 "the assistance I have received in every way from 

 the services of Lieutenant Hodson, 1st Bengal 

 European Fusiliers. Since the arrival of his regi- 

 ment at Unibala up to the present date his un- 

 tiring energy and perpetual anxiety to assist me 

 in any way in which his services might be found 

 useful have distinguished him throughout, and are 

 now my reasons for bringing this officer thus speci- 

 ally to the notice of the commander-in-chief." ^ 



1 G. W. Forrest's ' Selections from the Records of the Indian 

 Mutiny,' 1857-58. 



