The Boy Soldier; Or, Garibaldi's Young Captain — page 191: what you’re looking at

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THE BOY SOLDIER; OR, GARIBALDIS YOUNG CAPTAIN, iS Oe ae F ae 55 a THE MANIAC.—SEE NEXT NUMBER. “The onset was furious; nothing seemed to withstand the impetuosity of our men. “The enemy gradually withdrew from the open ground in much confusion. ‘Fresh divisions were hurried to the front to check our advance. “The meeting was terrible, but the shock of short duration. “Beaten again and again, they were at last driven beyond the position originally occupied, ‘Through woods and copse, across corn-fields and ploughed fields, grassy slopes and meadows, over gullies, ditches, brooks and hedges, the com- batants in this wing had contended since early morning, and their lines had advanced or retreated again and again, until it seemed that every acre of the landscape was strewn with dead, No. 24, a5) ents, we could not maintain the conquered 4 w - - “ Tokens of carnage were visible on every hand, “ The woods were torn and shattered. “The corn and grass were trodden under foot ; outhouses 4nd farmhouses were heaps of blazing ruins, while, for miles, long lines of smoke ascended over the fertile valley, and numerous. batteries uninterruptedly belched forth showers of shot and shell. “ Still the contending lines swayed and advanced, or broke and retreated, so that, to civilised beings, it seemed like some ghostly panorama of things transpiring in a nether world. Charles Albert’s: impetuous advance at length halted. ‘‘ His men had far surpassed their olden fame; but it soon became apparent that weakness was enfeebling our efforts, and that without reinforce- CO CO)