THE COSSACK
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MISHCHENKO AND HIS COSSACKS
SNAPSHOT TAKEN DURING THE ATTEMPT TO CUT OFF KUROKI, EA, SEPT. I, 1904
BEING THE STORY OF AN IRISHMAN WHO
R THROUGHOUT
THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
FRANCIS McCULLAGH
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LONDON EVELEIGH NASH
" Oh I why art thou so troubled? " asked the Cossack of the Don, 11 Oh! why, m muddy eddies, does thy turbid stream flow on?
Oh! quiet Don Ivanovitch I Oh! famous, quiet Don!
Our bdtyushka! * Our Nourisher! why is thy brightness gone? "
And glorious Don Ivanovitch he answered and he said: " No wonder that my banks are broke and muddy is my bed, For the Cossacks are my bulwarks, the Cossacks are my stay, How can I flow on gently when my Cossacks are away? "
Ballad of the Don Cossacks.
* Grandfather.
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY FRIEND
FERDINAND BURTIN,
LIEUTENANT IN THE TIRAILLEURS
ALGERIENS AND SO TNI A' IN THE
COSSACKS OF VERKHNYUDINSK:
KILLED NEAR YINKOW DURING
MISHCHENKO'S FAMOUS RAID,
JANUARY io, 1905
PREFACE
The letters which form the basis of the following chapters are reprinted from the New York Herald, by whose kind permission they are here reproduced; and the writer of them takes this opportunity of thanking Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of that paper, for placing him, in the first instance, in a position to write these articles at all.
The author originally intended to give a full description of his experiences in Port Arthur, and of all the battles in the late war at which he was present — i.e., of every battle save the comparatively unimportant battles of the Yalu and Vafangow, but, as he found that in that case he would have to produce three large volumes, instead of one small volume, he reluctantly abandoned the idea.
Moscow, January 20, 1906.
CONTENTS
PART I IN PORT ARTHUR
CHAP.
I. From Tokio to Port Arthur II. Life in Port Arthur
III. The Gathering Clouds.
IV. On Board the " Columbia " V. Inside Port Arthur
PART II WITH THE ARMY
I. I Join Mishchenko. II. Before Mishchenko's Raid
III. A Christmas with the Cossacks
IV. Mishchenko's Raid. V. How I Left Mishchenko
VI. The Battle of Sandypu.
VII. Mukden Before the Battle.
VIII. The Battle of Mukden.
IX. March 1 and March 2.
X. A Vast Vodka Debauch.
CONTENTS
XI. General Kuropatkin's Train XII. March 5, 6 and 7.
XIII. The Retreat from Mukden
XIV. Our Capture XV. Face to Face with Kuroki
XVI. Back to Liaoyang. XVII. From Liaoyang to Dalny XVIII. From Dalny to Japan as a Prisoner of War
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SUHUDYAPU PAVANGANPU TOW-TAiDZE mere I was with rhe VOUNSKY Regiment on th€ Zndlord.
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Mischenkos and his Cossacks.... Frontispiece Dragoons Drinking at a Wayside Well Francis Mc&dlagh and his Cossack, Philipoff Mischenkos Raid..... A Japanese Prisoner....
The South Gate of Mukden The Retreat from Mukden Russian Priests Blessing Rennenkampfs Cossacks before the Russian Advance on Pen-shi-Hu, October 1904
Facing page
PART I PORT ARTHUR