four
in the afternoon
Ye may call it fightin ' , but it 's just murder I call it meself . '' Something like this was the tale told by scores of wounded men , and it is little wonder that , sore with defeat and disappointment , and heart-sick at the loss which had been suffered , the feelings of the army found vent in deep grumblings at the generals who had sent out a handful of men to assault a fortress . The next day there was another truce to allow of the burial of the dead and the collection of the wounded who lay thickly on the ground between the rival trenches . It did not take place , however , till four in the afternoon , by which time the wounded had been lying for thirty hours without water or aid , the greater portion of the time exposed to the heat of a burning sun . Ten days later Lord Raglan died . He was a brave soldier , an honorable man , a most courteous and perfect English gentleman , but he was most certainly not a great general . He was succeeded by General Simpson , who appears to have been chosen solely because he had , as a lad , served in the Peninsula ; the authorities seeming to forget that for the work upon which the army was engaged , no school of war could compare with that of the Crimea itself , and that generals who had received their training there were incomparably fitter for the task than any others could be .