CHAPTER XXXVI

A Forlorn Hope--Stirring Episode of the Battle--A Night Attack--Difficult Operation--Elaborate Preparations--A Horror of Great Darkness--Slowly Pressing Onward--Zone of Death--The Russian Imperial Regiment--Fearless and Resolute Men--Stronghold Swept by Fire and Bayonet--Step by Step--Not Died in Vain.

Valley of the Shadow--Dead and Dying--Plucked from the Grave--A Shattered Victim--Strangely Pathetic Group--A Soldier on his Knees--“Kick him up”--A Slain Drummer.