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Battery, and this with a force unimpaired by the chap.
bombardment of the previous day. With before ! —
them Sebastopol in all its strength at a distance
nowhere less than 400 yards, and trained to take
advantage of ground, the Eiiles getting together
hung back for a while under such little shelter as
was afforded by the westward slope of the spur.*
Thence they plied the Redan with a fire that
seemed to produce no effect. Of course this halt
of the Rifles forced Murray also to halt with his
few Engineers ; but Graham had still work to do
in bringing up his wool-sack and ladder parties. The ladder.
Already he had lost several men. It was found
that the soldier — foot soldier — seemed averse
more or less from the service of carrying burthens
across a vast space under torrents of fire without
having his hand on the weapon — the weapon be-
loved and trusted — which in fights of the kind he
is most accustomed to contemplate forms almost a
part of himself ; but the sailors proved dauntless.
The vast stature of the young Engineer who Gerald
l , . , Graham
directed their energies made him strangely con- and the
^.ii saUors -
spicuous in the field, and it was on Gerald
Graham and the sailors that the praises of ob-
servers converged.
Murray at this time was mortally wounded, and Murray
J J mortally
the command of the Engineers devolved upon wounded.
Graham.
Then the brave, the hot-tempered Colonel Tyl-
- The distance of 400 yards was from the Quarries to the
salient of the Redan. The distance from its re-entering angle —the chosen point of attack — was 470 yards.
