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 3GG THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP, and, as before the last fight, so also now and hence- ^^' forth to the end of the day, our people fought^ m reriod. xmaided by others at this their favourite post. Russian Whcii Haines relinquished his lodgement within ascending tlic Quurrv Eaviue, all the enemy's forces below from the -^ J j Quarry rccovcred their freedom of action ; and soon, a liavino: great column appeared movmg up along the course of the Post-road. Major Dalzell — not governed as yet by the policy of holding back within the main picket line — brought forward the part of his Major 63d reo'iment then gathered about him, and from Dalzell's ", • r i i^ ■ i vainendea- (rrouud withiu the opeuuig 01 the Kaviue poured vour to re- ^ i ^ * i i t> • press it. fire upon the ascendmg column ;* but the Kussians placed under this ordeal did not stay their ad- vance. Dalzell's horse before long was shot under him; and, when at length — after some toil — he drew himself out from beneath the trunk of the dead or dying charger, he found that the ascend- ing mass of Kussians had made great way in the interval. His men, scant in number, yielded ground under the now close pressure of the weighty column; and, whilst always keeping busied against it a competent sprinkling of skirmishers, fell back to rejoin their comrades within the main-picket line. Under cover of artillery fire, the colunm brought the time when the contest at the Sandbag Battery was raging, two companies of the 63d had been sent off to our right ; and it must not be supposed that all the other companies remained down to this time united. Like every other battalion forming our wing engaged in this part of the fiehl, the 6-'.d had become divi(U-d into fractions.
 * It seems that under the influence of persuasions applied at