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having a mile gallop up to the guns along a valley 

 with high hills on each side, and six guns in position, 

 besides bodies of infantry on each hill and nine guns 

 in front, which we cleared, standing in the open with 

 not a man near them, but could not walk them off as 

 we had (the wretched remnant) to fight our way back 

 through a fresh regiment of lancers. Never was 

 such a mad order given. Nolan is the man to 

 blame. The last I saw of poor Goad was just going 

 into the guns, on my left. He was killed dead, as 

 the Russians sent back a bill of exchange found on 

 his body. Poor old ' Moses ' carried me through 

 like a man and just got me back. He was shot 

 through the shoulders, going right through him, and 

 in the hip joint, besides two grape-shot going into 

 my cloak in front and coming out at the top. A bit 

 of a shell also carried away the end of my cloak, 

 catching me in the knee — however, nothing to signify 

 — so I had a narrow shave. Percy Smith got a prod 

 in the side from a lance, but not deep. I tell you 

 these little particulars which may interest you, as I 

 have not seen the papers. You will be glad to hear 

 I have a good chance of a brevet majority, as Lord 

 W. Paulett told me Lord Lucan had mentioned me 

 in his despatches, and ' if they were liberal, I should 

 get it'. We had nothing to do at Inkerman, all 

 bushes and ravines, although they advanced us as 

 targets. However, all the shot and shell just went 

 over our heads. That was a most bloody business, 

 and you never saw such a scene as the field was — 

 the Russian bodies were so thick for half a mile that 



