TOTAL KILLED AND WOUNDED. 1G7 Lieutenant Parkei-, and 19 men wounded; the 20tli had 6 men wounded; the 21st, 8 men wounded; the 46th, 1 man wounded; the 4Sth, G men wounded; the 57th, 4 men wounded; the 63rd, Colonel Lyndsay (severely), and 4 men wounded, and 1 killed; the G8th, 1 man wounded; the Eifle Brigade, 1st Battalion, 2 men killed, and 9 men wounded. In the Eight Attack, Commissary Hayter and 5 men Avere killed; Captain Fitzroj^, Lieutenants Champion and Tyler, and 34 men of the siege tram were wounded. In the Left Attack, Captain Sedley, Major Chapman, Lieut. Elphinstone,E.E., and 7 sappers and miners, were wounded. The regiments in the trenches lost as follows: — Eifle Brigade, 2 wounded; 3rd Foot, 2 ditto; 17th, 1 ditto; 23rd Fusiliers, 13 ditto; 41st, 3 ditto; 55th, 1 ditto; 62nd, 2 killed, 3 wounded; 77th, 1 killed, 1 wounded; 88th, 1 wounded; 90th, 1 killed, 11 wounded; 93rd, 1 wounded; 97th, 2 wounded; 19th, 1 killed, 1 wounded.
The total given by Lieut. John Hall is 24 officers, and 129 men killed; 134 officers, and 1897 wounded. There was a feeling of deep depression in camp all night. It was quite uncertain what the result would be, as we knew the French were only in the Malakhoff, and we were painfully aware that our attack had failed. It was an eventful night. The camp was full of wounded men; the hospitals were crowded; and sad stories ran from mouth to mouth respecting the losses of the officers, and the behaviomof the men. CHAPTEE XVIL CAPTUEE OF SEBASTOPOL. Ketreat of the Russians — Evacuation of Sebastopol — Destruction of the fleet — Abandonment of the Redan — Conflagration in the town — Tremendous explosions — The last Russian soldier is withdrawn to the northern side — Reflections on the English attack upon the Redan — Sacrifices — The retreat of the Russians owing to the captura of the Malakhoff" by the French — Skilful arrangement of the Russian retreat — "Violent storm — Sebastopol in flames — The violence of the storm increases— A perfect tornado — The French general forbids all communication with the town — Delay in sending off the mail Sunday, September 9.
Fatigued and worn out by excitement, I lay down to rest, but scarcely to sleep last night. At my last walk up to the IGS CAPTURE OF SEBASTOPOL. front of the camp, after sunset, notliing was remarkable, except the silence of the batteries on both sides — the firing being chiefly on the extreme left and right of the attack. It was rumoured about seven o'clock, that an artillery officer in the trenches observed the enemy pouring across the bridge in large masses, and that he sent word to that effect to General Simpson. About eleven o'clock, my Imt was shaken by a violent shock as of an earthquake, but I was so thoroughly tired and worn out that it did not rouse me for more than an instant; having persuaded myself it was " only a magazine," I was asleep again.
In another hour these shocks were repeated in quick succession several times, so that Morpheus himself could not have slumbered; and so I got up, and walked up to Cathcart's Hill. Fires blazed in Sebastopol, but they were obscured with smoke and by the dust which still blew through the night air. As the time wore on, these fii-es grew and spread, fed at intervals by tremendous explosions. When the first grey rays of morning came, the truth was plain — the Russians were abandoning the city they had defended so gallantly and so long. Their fleet was beneath the waters. A continuous stream of soldiery could be seen marching across the bridge to the north side, where all seemed agitation and alarm.. And what were we doing?
Just looking on. It was after five o'clock ere General Bentinck came out of his hut close to Cathcart's Hill, to " see what the matter was." The little group which stood there was silent, and awestruck by the appalling spectacle before them, and no man cared to speak. The trenches were occupied by the Highland Division, under Sir Colin Campbell, with the Third Division in support; but the General did not occupj^ the Redan till after daybreak, and even then he did nothing, though he was informed soon after midnight that the Russians had abandoned it. The resume of this Sabbath day's work is as follows: — At eight o'clock last night the Russians began quietly to withdi'aw from the town, in the principal houses of which they had previously stored up combustibles, in order to render Sebastopol a Recond Moscow.