ing that pits were dug every night, to receive the victims of the day's fire, cholera. or small-pox.
"Neath the ruined Church walls, here sleep in the shade,
The mother and infant, the warrior and maid.
Their graves are sad voices, which silently tell
Of those who once suffer'd and gloriously fell.
When the Mutinous surge, beat against this lone rock,
And a handful of Heroes, repell'd the dread shock !
Which threatened destruction to each and to all,
When death was a solace, and welcome the call.
Affiction's dark cloud, has since vanish'd at last !
But the Ruins remain, which still speak of the past !
The stranger now treads, with full reverence, the ground,
Where the sleepers will sleep till the last Trumpet's sound.”
K. M. Nicholson.
Y.—REDAN BATTERY.
This battery was commenced about the 15th June, under the direction of Captain Fulton, and was by far the best battery we possessed in the line of defences. It was defended by a party of the 32nd Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant Sam Lawrence, of the same corps, an able and gallant officer. It mounted two 18-pounders and a 9-pounder, and was placed so as to sweep the Captain Bazaar, and the road up to the Iron Bridge. Here, on the 5th July, Mr. Ommanney was struck by a cannon shot in the head, which caused his death. On the 20th July the enemy made an attack on this post, by springing a mine, but fortunately missed the right direction, and the battery remained uninjured. They advanced within 25 paces of the post, but were compelled to retire under a heavy discharge of musketry. No less than one hundred of the enemy were borne off the ground by their comrades from this post alone, so tremendous and precise was the fire.
"The enemy made two mines directed against the Redan. The nose of the Redan was of brickwork, and I think that there was a small building abutting on it, a tool-house, or something of the kind. The point in the Bazaar where the second mine was started was 203 feet from the apex of the Redan, on a bearing of 72.° The actual direction of the mine was on a bearing of 101° and its extreme length was 157, the point reached being as nearly as possible 100 feet from the point aimed at. It was blown up, as a precautionary measure, by the garrison, on the 30th September."
"The first mine was begun at a point 150 feet lower down the Captain Bazaar than the second, and was quite wrong in direction, and short in length. It was sprung innocuously on the 20th July."
