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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.26 (search)
ed the Light Brigade in the famous and fatal charge of the 600 on the Russian guns at Balaklava, while all the world wondered, was never in a fight before or after the Crimean war, but he was made lieutenant-general, Knight Commander of the Bath, Commander of the Legion of Honor, and lionized generally. General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, who commanded the heavies and succeeded Lucan, had a similar record, and became, too, lieutenant-general and Knight Commander of the Bath. General George Charles Bingham, Earl of Lucan, who commanded the cavalry division, consisting of these two brigades, beyond some amateur soldiering with the Russians in 1828, never smelt powder before or after the Crimean war, but he became Knight Commander of the Bath, lieutenant-general and field marshal. What do these cavalrymen know of war compared to Forrest, Stuart, Hampton, Wheeler, or the cavalry Lees? Robert Cornelius Napier, Lord Napier of Magdala, as he is familiarly called, had served well in