Excerpt from The Story of the Campaign: A Complete Narrative of the War in Southern Russia, Written in a Tent in the Crimea In another letter dated, Camp before Sebastopol, Dec. 7th, he writes Several days that I have set apart for writing up, have been spent in the saddle. Could I have managed it, you should have had the account Of the battle Of the 5th but the divisions Of the army are scattered at such a distance from me several miles - that I have been unable to collect the information necessary for accuracy in ...
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Excerpt from The Story of the Campaign: A Complete Narrative of the War in Southern Russia, Written in a Tent in the Crimea In another letter dated, Camp before Sebastopol, Dec. 7th, he writes Several days that I have set apart for writing up, have been spent in the saddle. Could I have managed it, you should have had the account Of the battle Of the 5th but the divisions Of the army are scattered at such a distance from me several miles - that I have been unable to collect the information necessary for accuracy in describing the events Of the day, and I was too much Occupied myself to see all that passed, being in the thick of it, as you will believe when I will tell you that my horse, receiv ing three wounds, was killed by a cannon-shot, which passed through him behind my leg; and a poor sergeant, in the act of extricating me, had his thigh carried away by another. It was a gloomy but a glori ous business. The cannonade, far more tremendous than at Alma, lasted, almost without intermission, for more than nine hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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