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May Si. 1877.

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AT PLEVNA. AND RECAPTURE OF REDOUBT.

(From the London Daily News.)

STORMING THE LOVTORA

Left Wing of the Russian Army, Lovtcha Road, Sept. 12, 1877.

The redoubt Skobeloff was attacking was a double redoubt in the bend of the Lovt. cha road down near Plevna, He had ad- vanced his troops down the slope of the mountain to within easy range. As the Turks immediately opened fire upon him from the redoubt he returned the fire with steadiness and precision, putting his

men under cover as much as possible, his cannon pouring a steady stream of shell canister into the redoubt a3 well. In fact, he worked his cannon so much that sev, eral pieces have been spoiled. He had evidently determined to risk everything to capture this redoubt, and if Plevna were not taken it would not be his fault. For three hours be kept up this fire, and just after Kriloff’s second repulse, the Turkish fire having somewhat relaxed, dominated by the Russian, he thought the moment had come for making the assault.

He had four regiments of the line and four battalions of sharpshooters, Stli keeping up his murderous fire he formed under its cover two regiments, the Viadi. mirski and the Zoozolski, in the little hol. low at the footof the low hill on which was built the redoubt, together with two battalions of sharpshooters, not more than 1200 yards from the scarp. (hen placing himself in the best position for watching the result, he oeased fire and ordered the advance. fe ordered the assaulting party not to fire, and they rushed forward with their guns on their shoulders, with music playing and banners flying. and disappear. ed in the fog and smoke. Skobeloff is the only general who places himselt near enough to feel the pulse of a battle. The advancing column was indistinctly seen, a dark mass in the fogandsmoke. Feeling, as it were, every throb of the battle, he saw this line begin to waver and hesitate Upon the instant he hurried forward a rival regiment to support, and again watched the result. The new force cuar- ried the mass further on with its moment um; butthe Turkish redoubt flamed and smoked and poured forth such a torrent of dullets that the line was again shaken. Skobeloff stood in the shower of balls un. burt. All his escort were killed or wound~ ed even to tha iz, who received a bullet in the shoulder Again he saw the line hesitate and waver, and he flung his fourth and last regiment, the Libansky, on the glacis. Again this new wave cer ried the preceding ones forward, until they were almost on the scarp; but that dead- ly shower of bullets poured upon them; men dropped by hundreds and the result still remained doubtful. The line once more wavered and hesitated. Nota mo ment was to be lost, if the redoubt was to be carried,

FORWARD ONCE MORE.

Skobeleft had now only two battalions of sharpshotters left, the best in his detach- ments, Putting himself at the’ head of these, he dashed forward on horseback. He picked up the stragglers; he reached the wavering flictuating mass, and gave it the insviration of his own courage and in+ struction. He picked the whole mass up and carried it forward with a rush and a cheer, The whole redoubt was a mass of flame and smoke, from which screams, shout; and cries of agony and defiance arose, with the deep-mouthed beliowing of the cannon, and above all the steady, awful crash of that deadly rifle fire. Skobeleffs sword was cut in two in the middle. Then 4 moment later when just on the point of leaping tve ditch, horse and man rolled together to the ground, the horse dead or wounded, the rider untouched. He sprang to his feet with a shout; then with a tor- midable, savage yell the whole mass of men streamed over the ditch, over the scrap and counterscrap, over the parapet, and swept into the redoubt like a hurricane. Their bayonets made short work of the Turks still remaining. Then a joyous cheer told that the redoubt was captured, and that at last one of the defences of Plevna was in the hands of the Russians.

SKOBELEFF CARRIES THE REDOUBT.

Having seen as much as | have seen of the Turkish infantry fire from behind trenches and walls, | thought it was beyond flesh and blood to break it, a belief which had been strengthened by Kriloft’s repulse, which [I had just witnessed. Skobeleff proved the contrary, but at what a sacra~ fize! In that short rush of a few hundred yards, 3,000 men had been left on the hillside on the glacis, the scrap, and: the ditch—one-fourth of his whole force.

The question now was how to hold the redoubt. It was dominated by the redoubt of Krishina on the left already spoken of. it was exposed at the Ple\.sa side to the fire of the sharpshooters and to the Turks ish force, in the wood bordering the Sophia Road, and open to the fire of the in- trenched camp. ‘here was a cross fire coming from three different points, At daylight next morning the Turks opened fire from all sides. The distance from the redoubt at Krishina had, of course, been accurately measured and the guns dropped shells into the redoubt with the utmost _ precision on the exposed sides. The back

of the redoubt was a solid rock, on which | it was impossible to erect a parapet. All ‘the earth had been used for the construc.

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| tion of the parapets on the other side. It was evident that the position was unten- able unless the entrenched camp on the Other side of Plevna and the Krishina res | doubt could be taken, Skobeleff renewed |hisdemand for reinforcements made the evening. before, Although his losses Lad been great, the spirit of his troops was so good that with another regiment be was willing to undertake to Capture the re~« doubt and the ent-enched camp, or he would undertake to hold the positions un.. til something could b= attempted in some other quarter. The Grivica redoubt had also been carried by the Roumanians and Russians under General Shnitnikoff. Could one or two more positions be carried during Wednesday, say the Krishiba redoubt and one entrenched camp on the same ridge as the Grivica redoubt, the fall of Plevna might be considered certain, At sunrise the Turks began an attack upon the taken reloubt, and the storm of battle again raged with fury here, while all was quiet everywhere else. ‘The desperate attack of the Turks was repulsed. Another attack was made and another repulse, and this continued all day long until the Turks had attacked and been beaten five successive times.

DEATH ON ALL SIDEs,

The Russian losses were becoming fear ful. General Skobeleff had lost, he thinks’ 2.000 men in sttacking the redoubt. by the afternoon he had lost 3,000 more in holding it, while his battalions shrivelied up and sank awayas if by magic. One battalion of shargeshooters had been re-~ duced to 160 men. A company which hud been 150 men was now 40. An immense portion of officers were killed, or wounded only. Only one commander of a regiment is alive; scarcely a head ofa battalion is ‘eft: Two officers of the staft are killed, one of whom was Verastchagin, brother of the great artist. Another brother was wounded. Gen. Robrovolsky, commander of sharpshooters, was killed. One officer was blown to pieces by the explosion of u caisson, Captain Kurapatkin, chief of tho staff, standing beside this officer, had his hair singed and suffered a severe contusion. Ualy General Skobeleft himself remained uatouched, Ue seems to bear a charmed life, He visited the redoubt three or four times during the day encouraging the sol- diers, telling them help would soon ar- tive; Plevna would soon be taken; victory would soon crown their efforts; telling them it was the final decisive blow struck vr Se country ; for rr ‘honor and glory

Russian arms ; they alweys re. plied with the same ‘cherry shouts, while their numbers were dwindling away by hundreds.

LEFT TO FATE,

lie again and again sent for reinforces ments, and again and again informed the Vommander.in-Chief that the position was untenable. The afternoon 'wore away and no reinforcements came. General Levitsky, as | have been intormed, formally refused reinforcements, either because he thought the position, in spite of General Schobel effs representations, was tenable, or be- ciuse he had no reinforcements to give,

General Kriloff on bis own responsibil ty sent the remnant of a regiment which bad attacked the redoubt, which I saw rush for. ward and then back through that [ndian corn field. Of the 2.500 there were barely 1,000 lett, soit was utterly incapable of going into action that day. and even this regiment arrived too late. General Skobel- eft had left the redoubt at 4 o'clock to go to his tent on a woody hill Opposite. ile had been there scarcely an hour when he was informed that the Turks were again attacking the right flank on the Lovchya Road immediately above Plevna, [oe gals loped forward to see, and was met by an orderly with the news that the Turks were attacking the redoubt the <ixth time. He dashed forward towards the redoubt in the hope of reaching it in time, but was met by a stream of his own men flying back. They were exhausted by fortyseight bours

incessant fighting, and were worn out. hungry and dying of thirst and fatigue. Owing to the inactivity of the Russians dur- ing the day the Turks had been enabled to collect an overwhelming force, which had made one last desperate effort and bad succeeded in driving the Russians out. One bastion was held till the last by a young officer, whose name ! regret | have forgotten, with a handfui 6f men. ‘'hey refused to fly, and were slaughtered to the last man.

BEATEN, BUT UNTAMED.

It was just after this that | met General Skobeleff, the first time that day. He was ina fearful state of excitement and fury His uniform was covered with mud and filth ; his sword broken; his Cross of St. George twisted round on bis shoulders ; his face black with powder and smoke; his eyes haggard and bioodshot, and his voice quite gone. He spokein a hoarse whiss per. I never before saw such a picture of battle as he presented. I[ saw him again in his tent at night. He was quite calm and collected. He said, ‘| have done my best; L[could do no more. My detach- ment is half destroyed; my regiments do not exist; | have no officers left; they sent me no reinforcements, and i have loss three guns.’ They were three or four guns which he placed in the redoubt upon taking it, only one of which his retreating troops had been able to carry oft. ‘‘ Why

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