Chapter IV

More Trench Work--Meeting with Captain Vicars--My Letter of
the 15th March, 1855--Night Attack in the Trenches--Capt.
Vicars' Death--A few Remarks showing his Noble Character--My
Letter Descriptive of the Fight--Storming Rifle Pits--More
Trench Duty--Supplementary Letter--The Taking of the
Quarries and Circular Trench--Desperate Fighting before
Sebastopol, the 7th and 88th Leading--My Letter Home, 8th
June--Continued Fighting--First Assault on the Town--Its
Bloody Repulse--The Poor Old Light Division Cut to
Pieces--The Fusiliers again Led the Way--My Letter of the
18th--Waiting to be Revenged--A Terrible Night--Attack by
the Enemy and its Bloody Repulse--My Letter of the 28th
June, describing the Fight--Death of Lord Raglan much felt
through the Allied Army--The Battle of Tchernaya, 16th
August--The Enemy's Last Throw for Victory Defeated--My
Letter Home of the 18th August--Creeping Closer and Closer
to the Doomed City--The Last or Terrible Bombardment--A
Nasty Blunder, our own people pitching into us--My Letter
Home, 2 a.m., 8th Sept.--P.S. to it announcing my Death--My
P.P.S. after I had recovered 107-154

CHAPTER V.

The Storming of the Town--A Description of the
Assault--Capture of the Malakoff and Redan--Am left on the
Field Wounded--Our Loss, the French Loss, and the Enemy's
Loss--The Spoil--The Aspect of the Interior of the Town
after the Siege--Napoleon's Opinion as to the Source of
England's Strength--Letter of 14th September, 1855 155-175

CHAPTER VI.

Numerical List of Killed And Wounded in the various
Regiments forming the Crimean Army--Loss of the Light and
Second Divisions--Loss by Neglect, Hardships, and
Starvation--List of the Regiments that formed the various
Divisions of the Army--After the Siege--Lines on Miss
Florence Nightingale--A Peep Behind the Scenes--A Dreadful
Explosion in the Camp and its Consequences--Lieut. Hope and
the Fusiliers again leading almost to certain death--My
Letter of 26th December, 1855, to my Parents.--Concluding
Remarks, and Return Home to be nearly Killed with
Kindness.--Irish Anecdotes--Records of the Royal
Fusiliers--A Sketch of the "Holy Boys"--The Connaught
Rangers not to be despised--Letter Home, 27th October,
1854--Lines on the Campaign 176-250