The course of our narrative has already embraced the fall of General Cathcart and of his Brigadier-General Goldie; but a third name, only less illustrious than the first, now claims our notice. In the early part of the day Lord Raglan had established himself on a small knoll, with the object, if possible, of gaining a view, through the mist and rain, of the battle which was raging all around him. His Staff were with him, and among them BrigadierGeneral Strang ways. A shell fell into the centre of the Staff, burst in Captain Poulett Somerset's horse, killed another horse, and then struck off General Strangways' leg. " The poor old General," says Mr, Russell, " never moved a muscle of his face. He said merely in a gentle voice, ' Will any one be kind enough to lift me off my horse? ' He was taken down and laid on the ground, while his life-blood ebbed fast, and at last he was carried to the rear. But the gallant old man had not sufficient strength to undergo an operation, and in two hours he had sunk to rest, leaving behind him a memory which will ever be held dear by every officer and man in the Ai'my." There is something inexpressibly touching in this simple narrative of the last moments of a brave and good man, who died the death, as he had lived the life, of a soldier.
Among the returns of wounded are found the names of General Sir George Brown, severely; Bentinck, Torrens, severely; and Adams, who subsequently died of his wounds, severely. The Officers killed and wounded on this occasion amounted to 145; Serjeants killed and wounded to 155; and about 2300 rank and file killed, wounded, and missing.
The Coldstream Guards, who went into action with fifteen officers, came out with eight killed and five wounded from among that small number; and losses almost equally severe occurred among tlie officers of more tlian one of tlie regiments engaged.
Inkermann has been called "the Soldier's battle:" justly, if it be only meant by the phrase that the nature of the attack, and the peculiar circumstances under which it was made, while they rendered impossible any extensive strategical combination to oppose it, gave an opportunity to all ranks of the army to display an obstinate courage, bordering on desperation, and which amply supplied the place of the most skilful manoeuvring.
But the foregoing details imply a limitation to the truth of this description; and the vastly disproportionate number of Officers who suffisred, combined with the number of General Officers killed and wounded, proves to demonstration that there was no grade of the Army which did not contribute its full share to the glorious result.
This was the last serious effiart of the Russians in this year to compel the Allies to raise the siege; disheartened by repeated repulses, shattered and disorganized by their enormous losses in the place as well as in the field, with no fresh troops to bring up ignorant of the stubborn nature of the foe with whom they were to contend, they found it necessary to devote their whole energies to the task of preparation for the winter, which was now rapidly approaching.
A period of comparative inaction was at hand for both Armies; a forced truce, unacknowledged indeed and incomplete, maintaining at all times a semblance of war, and frequently broken by its reality, but still a truce.
It has been often confidently stated, and there is reason to believe with truth, that, but for the battle of Inkermann, the assault was to have been delivered within a few days of the date of that event; but the Allies, though victorious, had purchased their triumph so dearly, that the intention, if it was ever entertained, was unavoidably, for the time at least, abandoned. Nothing further of consequence could be attempted until the arrival of reinforcements; the sadly diminished numbers of our Army already barely sufficed for the laborious and liarassing duties of the trenches; and ere long demands more urgent, and necessities more imperative even than those which had already so severely taxed their patience and their energies, were to try them, up to and beyond the utmost limits of human endurance. On the 14th of November, only nine days after Inkermann, a hurricane of the most terrific violence, and which lasted with unabated fury for several