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 APPENDIX NOTE I. Respecting the Period when Colonel Darby Griffith, the Officer commanding the Greys, received tiii Wound which disabled Him. At the time of publishing my narrative of the battle oi Balaclava in 1868, I shared the very general error of sup- posing that Colonel, now General, Darby Griffith had received his wound in the first moments of the famous Heavy Cavalry charge. In this, and also in one other of the previous Editions, my error has been corrected, and it is now made clear that the Colonel charged into the Russian column at the head of his regiment — the Greys — and con- tinued to take part in the combat down to the much later moments of what I have called ' the hick eddy,' where he was struck by a pistol or carbine shot, and — for some time — disabled. The correspondence which dispelled my error on this subject is not, I think, without interest ; and, therefore, although the purpose of the writers has already been answered, I still keep their letters subjoined as a part of this Appendix. In answer to a letter which Mr Kinglake addressed him, General Griffith wrote as follows : —