JOURNAL OF THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.
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Left Attack.
1855.
July 27, Bay.
4 A.M. to 8 A.M.3 P.M. to 7 P.M.
Working Party.
Line . . . . £
Sappers . . .Officer on duty
1st Relief.
Right demi-parallel, 10 men assisting miners build-ing parapet and clearing trench ; 20 men and two Sap-pers widening trench and building banquettes ; No. 14battery, one Sapper and 25 miners employed blastinground traverse; earth collected in embrasure ofNos. 1 and 2 guns ready for throwing forward atnight ; clay collected at Nos. 3 and 4 embrasuresleft in heaps for throwing forward ; third parallel,quarrymen (two) employed deepening communicationfrom second parallel; 20 men and two Sappersbuilding revetment and traverses ; two Sappers and15 men employed in fourth parallel widening thetrench, revetting the parapet, and making goodtraverses.
One Sapper and 20 men making banquettes withold planks, fascines, &e.; first parallel, one Sapperand 15 men employed collecting stones ; No. 9battery, one Sapper and 15 men repairing traverseand parapet, on right ; four Sappers mining underparapet at No. 8 battery, for drain ; length excavatedat present 20 feet 6 inches ; one Sapper and 10 mencarrying out materials to No. 15 battery.
2d Relief.
Two hundred men employed similarly to 1st relief,extra men employed at No. 16 battery, and at com-munication to third parallel.
A heavy fire was kept up to 3 p.m. On FrenchLeft a mine sprung at about 5.30 p.m. A good dealof artillery fire throughout the day on Nos. 9, 13,and 14 batteries.
Right Attack.
1855.
July 27, Bay.
4 A.M. to 8 A.M.
8 P.M. to 7 P.M.
WOBXIXO PAKIT.
Line . . . . £
Sappers . . .CarpentersS. miners . .
1st relief, 300 men.2d relief, 400 „
13 men.
8 „
27
Officer on duty ( Ca ^ DE Moiet.vs,
1. Fifth parallel, 60 men in each relief improvingcover, collecting earth to be thrown over wall duringthe night. About 50 yards of the wall as far asthe Quarry q have been covered with earth. Thereremains about 100 yards to the edge of the smallravine to be now done.
2. Right approach m to fifth parallel, improvingcover, 1st relief, 60 men and nine miners, 2d relief,60 men.
3. Fourth parallel, 1st relief, 40 men and 10miners, 2d relief, 40 men, deepening, widening, andimproving cover on right.
4. Two-gun portion, No. 20 battery, on right ofNo. 17 battery, forming parapet, 25 men, 1st relief,and 20 men, 2d relief.
5. Building latrines in fifth parallel, 20 men ineach relief.
6. Excavating for doctors’ hut, 15 men, 1st relief,and 20 men in 2d relief.
7. Quarries, improving cover in places, 10 men ineach relief.
8. Magazine in No. 19 battery, covering withearth, 10 men in each relief.
9. Right demi-parallel, 10 men in each relief,rebuilding traverse.
10. Repairing trenches generally, 20 men, 1strelief, and 30 men, 2d relief.
11. Removing tool depot from left demi-parallelto near Quarries, 20 men 1st relief, and 30 men2d relief.
12. Repairing embrasure, No. 5 battery, 10 menin each relief.
13. Right approach k to fourth parallel, blastingand removing rock, eight miners.
14. No. 14 battery, rebuilding traverse, 2d relief,20 men.
15. Right approach to third parallel, 2d relief,70 men, deepening trench and repairing parapet; theSappers were employed superintending ; the car-penters were employed relaying in No. 17 theplatform of No. 2 gun. From the extreme left of thefifth parallel, a three-gun battery (which apparentlyhas been lately thrown up by the enemy) can be
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