. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . 46th regiment, seven men died in thetrenches on the first night. The poor fellowsengaged in these nightly duties compared theirposition with that of the French, and bitterlyfelt how unfavourable was the contrast. The general tenor of the soldiers letters, relat-ing to the nights in the trenches aud pickets,may be readily inferred. One, not a mere private,but an officer, wrote : I was myself on picketthe day before yesterday, for twenty-four hours; this morning I was on a working-party inthe trenches from
. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . 46th regiment, seven men died in thetrenches on the first night. The poor fellowsengaged in these nightly duties compared theirposition with that of the French, and bitterlyfelt how unfavourable was the contrast. The general tenor of the soldiers letters, relat-ing to the nights in the trenches aud pickets,may be readily inferred. One, not a mere private,but an officer, wrote : I was myself on picketthe day before yesterday, for twenty-four hours; this morning I was on a working-party inthe trenches from four oclock until the samehour in the afternoon; and to-morrow I am onpicket again: now, what manner of man, thinkyou, can stand this ? An officer of the Royalstold how that, in one week, about Christmas, hewas sent out to repel a Russian sortie towardsmidnight, and returned to camp at four in themorning on the next day; a few hours afterwards,he went on picket to a place against which theRussians maintained a warm fire during the night;returning to camp at seven in the morning of the. Lord Raglans Head-quarters. third day, he went in the evening to guard theammunition reserve, where he remained until tenoclock on the following morning; at four oclockon this, the fourth day, he was sent in charge ofa working-party in the left siege-train ; after ninehours service, he returned to the camp in thedead of the night, saturated with wet, and thenhad to delay his rest until, in the early mornof the fifth day, he had read the burial-serviceover two unfortunates who had died in thetrenches. Another officer in the same regimentwrote proudly but mournfully of his men : Theydrag on to the trenches while they can scarcelystand, and take a pride in never shirking orcasting their duty on others. Well might he say : It is very wearisome trying to walk about inslush for twelve hours at a time : indeed the younghands cannot do it; they sit or lie down in thewet, get cramps, and are carried to h
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