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GENERAL CAMPBELL'S ATTACK. 173 been carrying wool-bags and ladders, there were criAP. then few or none to be seen. '— Gerald Graham with his sappers and sailors, Disappear- and the ladders they had borne, remained for Rifles. some time in advance of our trenches ; but the covering party of Eifies had already disappeared from his front, nor again, if he looked to his rear, could he see ' the main column ' approaching. Non-appear- . ance of the Where the Ernes and the 'mam column were 'maincoi- T C ' Umn " ' we shall by-and-by see ; but their absence from this part of the field annulled of course for the time any prospect of thence undertaking an on- slaught against the Eedan. What Graham had whatre- 00 mained in with him in readiness for any assault were only this part of J J the field. the mechanical implements, and not the armed forces required. He therefore withdrew what remained of his Theiadder- . . party valiant sailors and sappers from their position brought under outside, and wisely brought them all back to sheitet await their next opportunity beneath the shel- tering parapet. What had separated the infantry from the bearers, and stopped the intended attack, will now be seen. At the outset of the advance we saw made by The « main . 'column.' the 'covering party' and 'bearers, the 'mam ' column ' under General Campbell in person was duly preparing to follow in the wake of the ladder-men, and already indeed its officers were, some of them, over the parapet, when the rest of the body was stopped and even