RECORDS OF SERVICE AND CAMPAIGNING IN MANY LANDS, VOL. 2 BY SURGEON-GENERAL MUNRO, M.D., C.B. Excerpt from Contents CHAPTER I. Gazetted to 93rd - Sutherland Fencibles - Raising of 93rd Highlanders - Clan or Feudal Power - Countess of Sutherland - Enrolment of her Tenantry - Regiment Embodied - Companies Classified according to Parishes - Religious Character of Regiment - Service at the Cape - Service in America - Battle of New Orleans - Terrible Losses of Regiment - The Influence of Discipline - Second Battalion - The old 93rd Officer - The West Indies - The Duke of Wellington - Colonel McGregor - Service in Canada - Colonel Spark - Return to England CHAPTER II. Malta, 1854 - Declaration of War with Russia - Sail for Turkey - Gallipoli - Line of Entrenchments at Bullair - Sail for Scutari on the Bosphorus - Highland Brigade - Sir Colin Campbell - Varna - First Difficulties - Sickness - My own Orders - Sir G. Cathcart and Staff of Fourth Division - The Great Fleet - Land in Crimea - I join the 93rd same Night - Great Storm - Army without Tents - Reception by my Regiment CHAPTER III. Introduction to Sir Colin - His Advice to Me - Field Equipment - Great Deficiency of Medical Equipment - Advance on 19th September - Battle of the Alma, 20th September - Advance of Highland Brigade - Retreat of Russian Army - The Wounded - Comfortable Hospital - My Superior Officers - Mr. Kinglake's Description of 93rd - Not quite Correct - Gaelic Language universally Spoken by Men of 93rd CHAPTER IV. Night of the 20th of September, 1854 - Bivouac on the Battlefield - The Surgeons' Duties - The Cholera - Burial of the Dead - 93rd Hospital- The Duke of Cambridge - Wounded Sent on Board Ship - French Ambulance Employed - The Advance to Katcha on the 23rd - Advance to Bilbec on the 24th - The Flank March on the 26th - Russian Rearguard - A Dying Comrade - Reach the Valley of the Tchernaya - Take Balaklava on the 26th - Armies March to Heights above Sebastopol - The 93rd left at Balaklava - Bivouac amongst Vineyards - The Church as a Hospital - Major Banner - 17th of October, First Bombardment - A Failure - Battle of Balaklava CHAPTER V. Wounded of the Light and Heavy Cavalry - Administrative Medical Officers - Position of Highland Brigade - Plan - Battle of Inkerman - Our Sufferings begin - Extreme discomfort in Tents - Starvation - Clad in Rags - Scurvy - Constant Storms - Supplies Arrive in January and February, 1855 - Two Royal Commissions - The Sanitary Commissioner - Things on the Mend - The Reconnaissance - Men again Appear in Kilts - Taken ill Myself in March. . . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.