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 34 THE BATTLE OF INKEltMAN. CHAPTER III. EVE AND EARLY MORNING OF THE 5TH OF NOVEMBER IN THE ALLIED CAMP. CHAP. From about 10 o'clock on the morning of tht IIL ° 4th of November, rain more or less heavy was camp on '^ almost Constantly falling ; but the atmosphere the 5th of. did not prove so obscure as to hinder men's eyes from detecting a certain air of busy movement on the part of troops gathered above the Inker- man ruins ; and since this indication agreed with the last reports brought into camp, many people at length became sure that the enemy, after having been frequently and largely reinforced in the course of the six preceding weeks, had within the last day or two received yet further accessions, and was now in great strength. Commanding (in the absence of Evans*) our 2d Division, General Pennefather was the officer primarily in charge of Mount Inkerman, and every afternoon, at this period, he used to ride to the front, because he liked to employ the last
 * Sir De Lacy Evans lay invalided on hoard ship.