172 GENERAL CAMPBELL'S ATTACK.
CHAP.
Y1I.
Interposi-
tion of
I lolODOl
Tylden;
resulting
in a move
towards the
salient of
the Redan.
Intensity
of t he Ore
confronted
by Tylden ;
who was
quickly
si ruck
down.
Coarse
taken by
Gerald '
Graham.
don (whom so often we have seen night anil day
in the thick of the siege fights) came up im-
patiently fretting at the check he had observed,
and saying, ' What are you stopping for? On,
'men, on! forward!' he shouted, waving his
sword over his head. Graham ran up to him
and asked, if, the attack on the flank of the
work being impracticable, he should lead his
men on the salient. The Colonel said : — ' Any-
' where, so long as you get on,' and again he
began to cheer on the men then moving towards
the salient. If any conjoined band of men had
come up alongside him, it must needs have en-
countered a fate scarce short of what one calls
massacre ; for, to use the eyes, any moment, was
to see the ground ripped up and torn by missiles
descending in swarms ; and so thick came the
flight of the grape -shots that together whilst
rushing, and hissing in storm through the air,
they gave out mighty crashes of sound not often-
times heard by mortals who have lived to speak of
such trials. As might well be expected, Colonel
Tylden was quickly struck down, and indeed so
cruelly wounded, that he never again would be
able to resume the valiant part he had taken in
the siege of Sebastopol.
First devoting some moments of care to the
honoured chief thus lying wounded, Gerald
Graham hurried after his men and drew up his
ladders on ground he chose for the purpose.
This he did by the aid of only the sailors and
a few sappers; for of the- 120 soldiers who had
