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the field. 
A Jitt urn of the Wouiulcd in the Naval Brigade on the '2nd and 
3rd of November, 1854. 
November 2, 1S54. 
Richard Webb, ordinary, Trafalgar, slightly 1 
November 3, 1S54. 
Mr. Philip Brock, mate. Britannia, slightly; Mr. Spalding, mate, 
London, slightly; Thomas Wran, A.B., Britannia, severely; William 
Gloss, captain forecastle, Albion, slightly 4 
Total, November 2 anil 3, 1354 5 
Stephen Lushington, 
Captain Commanding Naval Brigade. 
To tlie Military Secretary to H. E. Lord Raglan, 
Commander-in-Chief of the Army. 
A Return of the Killed ami Wounded in the Naval Brigade on 
on the 4 tk and 5(/i of November, 1 864. 
November 4, 1854. 
Wounded — John Lloyd, A.B., Vengeance, severely ; Mr. Wilson, 
mate. Vengeance, slightly Total Wounded 2 
November 5. 
Killed — John Wood, A.B., Albion 1 
Wounded — Joseph Herds, 2nd mute, Britannia, slightly ; James 
Galloway, A.B., Rodney, severely; William Trout, A.B., Vengeance, 
dangerously; Frederick Mackiti, ordinary, London, dangerously; 
James Brlen, A.B., Rodney, slightly 5 
Total killed, November 4 and 5, 1854 ... 1 
Total wounded „ „ ... 7 
Stephen Lushington, 
Captain Commanding Naval Brigade. 
The Military Secretary to H. E. Lord Raglan, 
Commander-in-Chief of the Army. 
A Return of the Wounded in the. Naval Brigade on the 6th 
of November, 1854. 
Mr. Selby, mate, Diamond, slightly ; James Berry, A.B., Trafalgar, 
slightly Total wounded 2 
Stephen Loshington, 
Captain Commanding Naval Brigade. 
To the Military Secretary to H. E. Lord Raglan, 
Commauder-in-Chief of the Army. 
THE LOSS OF THE GUARDS AT THE BATTLE OF 
INKERMAN. 
The following liat of the killed and wounded of the 3rd 
battalion of Grenadier Guards, and the 1st battalion of 
the Scots Fusiliers, at the battle of Iukerman, on the 5th 
iust., has been forwarded by the commanding office, a : 
THIRD BATTALION GRENADIER GUARDS 
Officers. 
Killed — Lieutenant-Colonel Edward PakCnlmm, Captain the Hon. H. 
Neville, and Captain Sir Robert Newman, Bart. 
Wounded — Colonel Frederick Hamilton, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. 
H. Percy. Lieutenant-Colonel R. Bradford, Captain A. Tipping, Lieu- 
tenant Sir James Fergusson, Bai t, and Lieutenant Cameron N. Sturt 
Skbgeants. 
Killed — John Algor, Reuben Cook, Riohard Parkinson, and John 
Cowell. 
Wounded — Richard Minor, James Hughes, Thomas Dawson, William 
Walker, James Keeling, and Thomas Rushent. 
Corporals. 
Killed — George Barton, Peter Mcdlicott, Henry Lomax, and John B. 
Davey. 
Woundevl — James, Lee, Alfred Evans, Robert Cowen, James Clark, 
Frederick Yates, William Bowers, Josh. Wadsworth, Thomas llorsman, 
John Swinburn, John Horspool, and Benjamin Owen. 
FIRST BATTALION SCOTS FUSILIER GUARDS. 
Colonel E. W F. Walker, slightly wounded; gunshot wound in chin, 
contusion of loot, and horse shot under him. 
Lieuteuant-Colonel J. II. Blair, mortally wounded ; gunshot wound 
of abdomen ; dead. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Seymour, slightly wounded; gunshot 
wound of hand. 
Captain Reginald Gipps, severely wounded; gunshot wound of neck. 
Captain Francis Baring, slightly wounded ; contusion of head and 
arm. 
Captain G, T. F. Shuckburgli, severely wounded , gunshot wound of log. 
Lieutenant S. J. Blano, slightly woundod ; contusion of chest and arm. 
Adjutant and Captain H. F. Drummond, severely wounded; gunshot 
wound through breast. 
Assistant- Surgeon A G. Elkington, slightly wounded ; contusion of leg. 
The Royal Albert, 121, Captain Sir Thomas Pasley, had 
her crew completed to working complement by a heavy 
draught from the Prince Regent at Portsmouth on Thursday, 
and the crew received advance wages. Yesterday (Friday) 
she embarked 730 officers and men of the several battalions 
of Guards, 488 officers and men of the 77th Regiment, 8 
officers of Royal Engineers, and 120 Sappers and Miners, 
making a total of 1,340 troops, with whom she will leave on 
Sunday for the Crimea. 
PRIVATE ACCOUNTS OF THE BATTLE OF 
INKERMAN. 
the night defoue the attack. 
Docs any one at home know the misery of trying to write 
in a windy tent, with the thermometer at thirty-six degrees, 
and a tallow candle, with the dust flying in clouds and the 
canvass flapping about like the sails of a ship, no fire, and no 
chance of one t If so, he at least will excuse a little 
gloominess in the tone of one's correspondence under such 
circumstances. On “ Guy Fawkes' Day*' t he fog and vapours 
of drifting rain were so thick .33 morning broke that one could 
scarcely see two yards before him. At four o'clock the bells 
of the churches in Sebastopol were heard ringing drearily 
through the cold night air, but the occurrence has been so 
usual it excited no particular attention. During the night, 
however, a sharp-eared sergeant on an outlying picket of 
the Light Division heard the sound of wheels iu the valley 
below, as though they were approaching the position up the 
hill. He reported the circumstance to Major Buubury, but it 
was supposed that the sound arose from ammunition-carts 
or arabas going into Sebastopol by the Iukerman road. No 
one suspected for a moment that enormous masses of 
Russians were creeping up the rugged sides of the heights 
over the valley of Iukerman, on the undefended flank of the 
Second Division. There all was security and repose. 
Little did the slumbering troops in camp imagine that a 
subtle ivnd indefatigable enemy were briugiug into position 
su overwhelming artillery, ready to play upon their teuts at 
the first glimpse of daylight on the 5th. 
THE ATTACK. 
" wsw n little after five o'clock, on tho morning of the 
oth, when Brigadier-General Codrington, iu accordance with 
his usual habit, visited the outlying pickets of his own bri- 
gade of the Light Division. It was reported to him that 
all was well,” and the general entered into some conver- 
sation with Captain Pretymun, of the 33rd Regiment, who 
was on duty on the ground; in the course of which it was 
remarked that it would not bo at all surprising if the 
•tussians availed themselves of tho gloom of the morning to 
®ake an attack ou our position, calculating on the effects of 
he ram iu disarming our vigilance and spoiling our weapon*, 
he brigadier, who has proved a most excellent, coo!, and 
brave officer, turned his pony round at last, and retraced hi* 
steps through the brushwood towards his lines. He had only 
proceeded a few paces when a sharp rattle of musketry was 
heard down the hill and on the left of the pickets of the Light 
Division. It was here that the pickets of the Second Division 
were stationed. Geueral Codrington at ouce turned his horse's 
head in the direction of the tiring, and in a few moments gal- 
loped back to turn out his division. Tho Russians were ad- 
vancing in lorce upon us ! Their gray greatconts rendered 
them almost invisible, even when dose at hand. The pickets 
of the Second Division had scarcely made out the advancing 
lines of infantry, who were clambering up tho steep sides of 
the lull through a drizzling shower of min, ere they were 
forced to retreat by a close sharp vollov of musketry, and 
were driven up towards the brow of the hill, contesting 
every step of it, and firing, as long as they had a round of 
ammunition, on the Russian advance. The pickets of the 
Light Division were assailed soon afterwards, mul wore also 
obliged to retreat and fall hack on thoir main body, and it 
vras evident that a very strong sortie hud fi.'.-u n,;i,l.> upon 
the right of the position of the allied armies, with the object 
of forcing them to raise the siege, ami, if pos ibltty of dni mg 
them iuto the sea. 
CHARACTER OF THE STRUGGLE. 
And now commenced the bloodiest struggle ever witnessed 
since war cursed the earth. It has beeu doubted by military 
historians if any enemy have ever stood a charge with tho 
bayonet, but hero the bayonet was often tho only weapon 
employed in conflicts of the moat obstinate and deadly 
character. We have been prone to believe that no foe could 
ever withstand the British soldier wield ing liis favourite 
weapon, and that at Maida alone did the enemy ever cross 
bayonets with him ; but at the battle of Iukerman not only 
did we charge in vain — not only were desperate en- 
counters between masses of men maintained with the 
bayonet alone — but we were obliged to resist, bayonet to 
bayonet, the Russian infantry again and again, as they 
charged us with incredible fury and determination. The 
Battle of Iukerman admits of no description. It was a series 
of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary lmud-to-hund 
fights, of despairing rallies, of desperate assaults —in glena 
and valleys, in brushwood glades aud remote dells, hidden 
from all human eyes, and from which tho conquerors, 
Russian or British, issued only to engage fresh foes, till our 
old supremacy, so rudely assailed, was triumphantly asserted, 
and the battalions of the Czar gave way before our steady 
courage, aud the chivalrous fire of France. No one, however 
placed, could have witnessed even a small portion of the 
doings of this eventful day — for the vapours, f »g, and 
drizzling mist, obscured the ground whore the struggle took 
place to such an extent as to render it impossible to nee what 
was going on at the distance of a few yards. Besides this, 
the irregular nature of the ground, the rapid fall of tho hili 
towards Iukerman, where the deadliest tight took place, 
would have prevented one under the most formidable cir- 
cumstances seeing more than a very insignificant and de- 
tailed piece of the terrible work below. 
lord raglan's arrival. 
It was six o'clock when all the head-quarter camp was 
roused by roll after roll of musketry on the right, aud by 
the sharp report of field-guns. Lord Raglan was informed 
that the enemy were advancing in force, and soon after seven 
o’clock he rode towards the scene of action, followed by his 
staff, aud accompanied by Sir George Burgoyne, Brigadier- 
General Strongways, R.A., and several aides-do-dauip. An 
they approached, the volume of sound — the steady, unceasing 
thunder of gun, and rifle, aud musket- told that the engage- 
ment was at its height. The shells of tho Russians, thrown 
with great precision, burst so thickly among tho troops, that 
the noise resembled continuous discharges of cannon, aud 
the massive fragments inflicted death on every side. One 
of the first things the Russians did, when a break in the fog 
enabled them to see the camp of the Second Division, wan to 
open fire on the teuts with round shot and largo shell ; and 
tent after tent was blown down, torn to pieces, or sent into 
the air, while the meu engaged iu camp duties, and the un- 
happy horses tethered up iu the lines, were killed or muti- 
lated. Colonel Gambler was at once ordered to get up two 
heavy guns (18-pounders) ou the rising ground, and to reply 
to a fire which our light guns were utterly inadequate to 
meet. As he was engaged iu this duty, and was exerting 
himself with Captain Daguilar to urge them forward, Colonel 
Gambier was severely but not dangerously wounded, and 
was obliged to retire. His place was taken by Lieuteuant- 
Colonel Dickson ; and the conduct of this officer in directing 
the fire of those two pieces, which had the most marked 
effect in deciding the fate of the day, was such as to elicit 
the admiration of the army, and to deserve the thanks of 
every mau engaged in the bloody fray. But long ere these 
guns had beeu brought up there had been a great slaughter 
of the enemy, .and a heavy loss of our own men. Our 
generals could not see where to go. They could not tell 
where the enemy were — from what side they were coming, 
aud where going to. In darkness, gloom, and rain, they had 
to lead our lines through thick scrubby bushes and thorny 
brakes, which broke our ranks and irritated our men, while 
every pace was marked by a corpse or man wounded from 
an enemy whose position was only indicated by the rattle of 
musketiy and the rush of ball aud shell. 
DEATH OF SIR GEORGE CATHCART. 
Sir George Cathcart, seeing bis meu disordered by tho fire 
of a large column of Russian infantry which was outflanking 
them, while portions of the various regiments com 
posing his division were maintaining an unequal struggle 
with an overwhelming force, rode down iuto the ravine in 
which they are engaged, to rally them. He perceived at the 
same time that the Russians had actually gained possession 
of a portion of the hili iu rear of one flank of hi-* division ; 
but still his stout heart never failed him for a moment. He 
rode at their head, encouraging them ; and when a cry arose 
that the ammunition was failing, he said coolly, "Have you 
not got your bayonets/” As lie lei ou his yien it wus 
observed that another body of men had gained tho top of 
the hill behind them on the right, but it was impossible 
to tell whether they were friends or foes. A deadly 
volley was poured iuto our scattered regiments. Sir 
George cheeered them and led them back up the 
hill, but a flight of bullets passed where he rode, and he 
fell from his horse close to the Russian columns. The 
men had to fight their way through a host of ouemies, and 
lost fearfully. They were surrounded and bavonetted on all 
sides, and won their desperate way up the hill, with dimi- 
nished ranks, aud the loss of near 500 meu. Sir George 
C'athoart's body was afterwords recovered, with a bullet 
wound in the head and three bayonet wounds in the body. 
In this struggle, where the Russians fought with the greatest 
ferocity, aud buyouetted tho wounded ns they fell, Colonel 
hwyny, of tho 63d, a most gallant officer ; Lieutenant Dow- 
ling, 20th ; Major Wynne, 68th ; and other officers whose 
names wdl be found iu tho Gazette, met their death ; and 
Brig uber Goldie (of the 57th Regiment) received the wounds 
••f w hich he has since died. The conflict ou the right was 
equally uncertain aud equally bloody. In the Light Divi- 
sion. the 88th got so far into the front that they were aur- 
rounded and put iuto utter confusion ; when four companies 
o» the ,7th, under Major Straton, charged the Russians, 
broke them, and relieved their comrades. 
1 ne tight had not long commenced oro it was evident that 
the Russian* had received orders to fire at all mounted 
oracers. Sir George Brown was struck bv a shot, which 
w cut through liu arm aud struck his side. 1 saw with regret 
us pale and sternly -composed face, as his body was borne 
>y me mi a litter early in the day, his white hair flicker- 
ing m tho breeze, for I knew we had lost the ser- 
vices of a good soldier that day. Further to tho right 
u contest, tho like of which, perhaps, never took place 
before, was going on between tho Guards and dense 
columns of Russian infantry of five times their number. 
1 fie Guards hiul charged them, and driven them buck 
whou they perceived that the Russians had outflanked them’. 
I hey were out of ammunition, too. They were uncertain 
whether there wero friends or foes in the rear. They had 
no support, no reserve, and they wore fighting with the 
bayonet, against au enemy who stoutly contested every inch 
of ground, when tho corps of another Russian column 
appeared on thoir right, far in their rear. Then a fearful 
vutraille was poured iuto thorn, and vollies of rifle aud 
musketry. The Guards were broken ; they had left 
twelve officers dead iu the field; they had left one-half 
of their number upon tho ground, aud they retired along the 
lower road ot the valley. But they were soon reinforced, 
and they speedily avenged their loss. 
HEROIC DEATH OF GENERAL STUANGWAY3. 
About halt-past nine o'clock Lord Raglan and his staff 
were assembled ou a knoll, in the vain hope of getting a 
glinqtso of the battle which was raging below them. Here 
General Straugways was mortally wounded, and I atn told 
that he met his death in the following way ; — A shell came 
right in among the staff; it exploded in Captain Somerset’ll 
horse, ripping him open ; a portion of the shell tore off the 
leather overalls of Captain Somerset's trousers, it then struck 
down Captain Gordon’s horse and killed him at once, and 
then blow away Geueral Strangway’s log, so that it hung 
by a shred of flesh aud a bit of cloth from tho skin. Tho 
poor old general never moved a muscle of llis face. He said 
merely, in a gentle voice, “ Will auy one be kind enough to 
lift mu off my horse '!" Ho was taken down and laid on the 
ground, while his life blood ebbed fas!,, and at last ho was 
carried to tho rear. But the gallant old man had not 
sufficient strength to undergo an operation, and iu two 
hours ho had suuk to vest, leaving behind him a memory 
winch will over bo held dear by every officer aud man of 
tho army. 
THE RENEWED ASSAULT. 
The Russians left mounds of dead behind them. Long 
ere they fled the Chasseurs d'Afrique charged them most 
brilliantly over the ground, difficult and broken au it was, 
aud inflicted great luus ou them, while tho effect of thin 
rapid attack, aided by the advance of our troops, secured 
our guns, which were only spiked with wood, and were soon 
rendered fit for service. Our own cavalry, tho remnant of 
the Light Brigade, wore moved into a position where it was 
hoped they might be of service ; but they were too few to 
attempt anything, aud while they were drawn up they lost 
several horses and some men. One officer, Comet Cleve- 
land, was struck by a piece of shell in tho side, and has 
siuca expired. Thera are now only two officers left with 
tho fragment of the 17th Lancers — Captain Godfrey 
Morgan aud Cornet. George Wombwell. At twelve 
o’clock the battle of Iukerman seemed to have been 
wou ; but tho day, which had cleared up for au hour pre- 
viously so as to enable us to soo the enemy and meet 
him, again became obscured. Rain anil fog set in ; and 
as wo could not pursue the Russians, who were retiring 
under the shelter of their artillery, wo had formed in front 
of our lines aud wore holding tho battle-field so stoutly con- 
tested, when the enemy, taking od vantage of our quietude, 
again advanced, whjle their guns pushed forward and opened 
a tremendous fire upou us. General Canrobert, who never 
quitted Lord Raglan for much of the early part of the day, 
at once directed tho French to advance and outflank the 
enemy. In his efforts ho was most ably seconded by Gene- 
ral Bosquet, whoso devotion was noble. Nearly all his 
mounted escort were down beside and behind him. Gene- 
ral Canrobert was slightly wounded. His immediate attend- 
ants suffered Beverly. The renewed assault was so admirably 
repulsed that tho Russians sullenly retired, still protected 
by their crushing artillery. 
A 80RTIB. 
At one o’clock the Russians wore again retiring. At 1.40 
Dickson’s two guns smashed their artillery, and they lim- 
bered up, leaving five tumbrels and one gun-carriage on the 
field. 
Tho Russians, about ten, made a sortie on tho French 
linos, and traversed two parallels before they could be re- 
sisted. They wore driven back at last with great loss ; and 
as they retired they blew up Hume mines inside the Flagstaff 
Fort, evidently afraid that tho French would enter pell-mell 
after them. 
COUNCIL OF WAR. 
Nov. G. — Two hundred Russian prisoners were brought 
last night to head-quartern camp. They were badly 
mnded many of them, and several died during the night, 
council was held to-day at Lord Raglnu’s, where Geueral 
nrobert, General Bosquet, and Sir K. Lyons assisted, 
lich lasted several hours. At four o’olock Lord lisglon 
tended the funerals of General Sir G. Cathcart, of Brigar 
ir Goldie, and of General Strang ways. They were buried, 
th eleven other officers, ou Cathcart’s-hill- At the some 
so fourteen officers of the Guards wero buried together 
ir the windmill. Tho work of burying the dead and car- 
ing the wounded to Ba’aklava occupied the day. The 
lasLiuh are quiet. We hear they have lost 10,000 men and 
AmC'co.mvil of war was held to-day November ^ at 
» close of w hich the Duke of Cambridge left fiu- Ualaklava 
1 went ou board the Caradoc. H.a Koval HighDMB » - Jf 
•aid, going to Constantinople. I* H *»<* "• 
, winter The46th Regiment haw .nmve.l here, nUo U00 
rk* from Yolo, and 2,800 French. The Kus««u 
r burying parties. There was an alarm lost mght. 1 he 
of the Second Division. 
