hts of Balaclava that night, prepared to receive
the Russians if they had returned; but they had had enough of us, and
had retreated. We of the light division remained stationed at this
place all the winter.

There was another bloody battle fought not long after this on the 5th of
November, called the battle of Inkerman. The allied armies were posted
on high ground, with the sea on one side, and deep valleys on the other.
Below the British right, where the ground was very steep, were the
rivers Chernaya and Inkerman. The Russian general knew that this was
our weakest point, and evidently hoped to take us by surprise. The
morning was so dark and foggy that the officers who were visiting the
outposts could not see twenty yards before them into the valley. Sir
Thomas Trowbridge was the first, I have heard, to discover the approach
of the enemy. They were close upon our camp with 60,000 men, and were
beginning to climb the heights before the bugle sound summoned our
troops to stand to their arms. The British during the whole day had not
more than 8,000 men engaged. The Russians climbed up the heights, but
again and again were driven back, till the French, at last coming up,
put them to flight. The Guards, who had a great deal of the fighting,
behaved most bravely, and lost a great many officers and men. The
British army on that morning had 43 officers and 416 men killed, and 101
officers and 1332 men wounded, while 200 were missing, mostly made
prisoners.

A very severe winter now set in, and a large steamer _The Prince_, with
clothing for the army, sank off Balaclava in a fearful gale, in which
many other vessels were lost. The weather was very cold, with snow and
wind and rain, and our poor fellows suffered greatly from want of food
and clothing and shelter. Our tents were nearly worn out, and were at
all events unfit for the winter, and we were obliged to live in hovels
and holes in the ground. From what I have heard, many more men die of
sickness in war-time than are killed in battle; and from the numbers who
died of cholera and other complaints, in the Crimea, I believe that to
be true.

I have not said anything about Marshall for some time. He did his duty
steadily and well, and was always cool under fire. He had not
volunteered as I had done for any dangerous work, but he was a man on
whom I knew that I could rely, whatever was to be done. He came one day
to me in high spirits, with a letter he had