Voyage to Malta--Scenes between Decks--An Insufficiency of Doctors--Landing at Malta--Kind Treatment in Hospital--The Nurses--Fast Recovery--Letter Home--Longing to be at it again--Purchase of Blankets and other Comforts--Another Letter Home--To the Front again--Reception by old Mess-Mates--Sufferings of the Army--Break-down of the Commissariat--Plenty of Stores Rotting in Harbour, but none to be got by the Troops--Make-shifts--Appearance of the Men 94-106
More Trench Work--Meeting with Captain Vicars--My Letter of the 15th March, 1855--Night Attack in the Trenches--Capt. Vicars' Death--A few Remarks showing his Noble Character--My Letter Descriptive of the Fight--Storming Rifle Pits--More Trench Duty--Supplementary Letter--The Taking of the Quarries and Circular Trench--Desperate Fighting before Sebastopol, the 7th and 88th Leading--My Letter Home, 8th June--Continued Fighting--First Assault on the Town--Its Bloody Repulse--The Poor Old Light Division Cut to Pieces--The Fusiliers again Led the Way--My Letter of the 18th--Waiting to be Revenged--A Terrible Night--Attack by the Enemy and its Bloody Repulse--My Letter of the 28th June, describing the Fight--Death of Lord Raglan much felt through the Allied Army--The Battle of Tchernaya, 16th August--The Enemy's Last Throw for Victory Defeated--My Letter Home of the 18th August--Creeping Closer and Closer to the Doomed City--The Last or Terrible Bombardment--A Nasty Blunder, our own people pitching into us--My Letter Home, 2 a.m., 8th Sept.--P.S. to it announcing my Death--My P.P.S. after I had recovered 107-154
The Storming of the Town--A Description of the Assault--Capture of the Malakoff and Redan--Am left on the Field Wounded--Our Loss, the French Loss, and the Enemy's Loss--The Spoil--The Aspect of the Interior of the Town after the Siege--Napoleon's Opinion as to the Source of England's Strength--Letter of 14th September, 1855 155-175
Numerical List of Killed And Wounded in the various Regiments forming the Crimean Army--Loss of the Light and Second Divisions--Loss by Neglect, Hardships, and Starvation--List of the Regiments that formed the various Divisions of the Army--After the Siege--Lines on Miss Florence Nightingale--A Peep Behind the Scenes--A Dreadful Explosion in the Camp and its Consequences--Lieut. Hope and the Fusiliers again leading almost to certain death--My Letter of 26th December, 1855, to my Parents.--Concluding Remarks, and Return Home to be nearly Killed with Kindness.--Irish Anecdotes--Records of the Royal Fusiliers--A Sketch of the "Holy Boys"--The Connaught Rangers not to be despised--Letter Home, 27th October, 1854--Lines on the Campaign 176-250