| Description | General thanks for correspondence received. "Whenever you write to Mary Stanley pray tell her that General Barnard did not give me her letter and that she must not think I should have been so rude as not to have answered it if I had received it from him. The next time I see him I shall ask him about it but he is now a Head Quarters man and just out of my reach, being always over head and ears in business. The C.B. has been distributed here, in some cases with a total disregard to all qualifications. It has been given to men who have not seen a shot fired and to others who I have no doubt would have done well if they had had opportunity but still have managed to feather their nests somehow. There is no news here with the exception by the way of ? new army having attempted yesterday to face the passage of Tchernaya and having been driven back with the loss of 6,000 killed and wounded. The battle was raging within a mile and a half of us as the crow flies from two in the morning until 7. I was in bed and know nothing at all about it. We are all surprised at the enemy not having been followed up and the plans of the Generals are not to be fathomed (if they have any). We have opened fire [No. 7] this morning, what will be the issue of course no one knows; another assault is suspected I suppose. |