Excerpt: ...and therefore quietly pocketed the more lenient penalty, and the countermarch his nose had made towards his cheek, and thought himself fortunate that he had not been deprived of his life. Naught was now heard but the roaring of the two six-pounders and the whistling of shells. The dying and the wounded lay in masses in the dells and ravines below. In our own company we had, I think, eleven killed and twenty wounded, our total number being eighty only. I do repeat again, I never saw such soldiers. I began to ...
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Excerpt: ...and therefore quietly pocketed the more lenient penalty, and the countermarch his nose had made towards his cheek, and thought himself fortunate that he had not been deprived of his life. Naught was now heard but the roaring of the two six-pounders and the whistling of shells. The dying and the wounded lay in masses in the dells and ravines below. In our own company we had, I think, eleven killed and twenty wounded, our total number being eighty only. I do repeat again, I never saw such soldiers. I began to think myself, in comparison with them, but yet a novice. When the evening began to spread her mantle over the dreary scene, the sombre appearance of the lowering sky seemed to mourn, and put on a garb of black, to shield from human eye the ghastly sight below. As long as it was light, we could plainly see the last struggles of the dying. Some poor fellows could be seen raising their knees up to their chins, and then flinging them down with all their might. Some attempted to rise, but failed in the attempt. One poor fellow I saw get on his legs, put his hand to his bleeding head, then fall, and roll down the hill, to rise no more. This was the scene that the evening now closed upon. Reader, believe me when I assure you that these results of war were no sights of exultation or triumph to the soldiers who witnessed them. Willingly would we one and all have extended the hand of aid to them, and dressed their gaping wounds. No brave man will ever exult over a bleeding and wounded enemy. The weapon of destruction is no sooner out of his hands, than he is our prisoner, but not our foe. The sympathetic expressions that fell from the lips of our brave soldiers, on witnessing these sights, would have done credit to any set of men. The dark clouds omened a coming storm. I have been told that any particular noise in mountainous countries
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Very good. Illustrated with an introduction by Manners Chichester. 8vo, 386 pages including a 4 page appendix, original pictorial red cloth, small heraldic bookplate, spine sunned and front cover stained; foxing on endpapers and fore-edge. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1890. Very good.
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Text fair to good, ex-lib. rebound in very good binding. 386, illus., appendix, raised lib stamp & lib numbers on title pg, some soiling to a few pgs, small tears in margins of a few pgs. Weakness to front board, discoloration to second rear flyleaf. John Shipp was a pauper boy who enlisted in the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot in 1797. He eventually rose through the ranks and served in India. Forced to retire from the service when he got into financial difficulties, he published these memoirs in 1829. This book is a reprint of the 1843 edition.
