Catalogue description Camp before Sebastopol

This record is held by Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Details of DHB/56
Reference: DHB/56
Title: Camp before Sebastopol
Description:

Not much news, except he is still alive. Fighting is at a standstill. Men are "going down like sheep to be slaughtered in the trenches, not knowing when it will come to one's own turn to receive an ounce of lead for breakfast or about six pounds of iron from a shell in the stomach as a cure for cholera."
Date: May 1855
Held by: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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