GENERAL CAMPBELL'S ATTACK. 169
Fifty soldiers carrying wool-bags;* chap.
Sixty soldiers and sixty sailors bearing, all of 1_
them, ladders ;
The ' main column ' or ' storming party ' with a
strength of 400 men drawn from the 57th Eegi-
ment.
Thus, besides its attendant Engineers and bear-
ers of wool-bags and ladders, the force comprised
500 bayonets.
The 'reserve,' under Colonel Lord West, drew
its men from the 21st Fusiliers and the 17th
Regiment, and had a strength of 800.
The commander, General Sir John Campbell,
placed himself at the head of his ' main column,'
or ' storming party/ and directed that the so-
called reserve should follow in close support.
The Engineer officer trusted to pilot the
column was Lieutenant Murray, and the one
at the head of the ' ladder-party ' was he of
whose growing fame we spoke in an earlier page
— the then young lieutenant, now General Sir
Gerald Graham.
Supposing the Great Eedan and its neighbour- No means
,.. . ... . . ii-i enabling "the
mg baueries to be still m the crushed, silenced column to
state to which our great guns had reduced them chosen point
i • • 7 i ii * -i i of attack.
on the previous evening, the bulk of the column
thus organised might perhaps have been able to
traverse the interval of 470 yards which divided
it from the object of attack without ceasing at
the end of the march to be a highly fit instrument
for carrying the western flank of the Great Redan
- For fiHine the ditch.
