ABSTRACT
On September 24, while the troops were drying their clothes and storing baggage in the Alambagh, Sir Henry Havelock and General Outram had carefully considered the various roads from the Charbagh bridge to the Residency. The casualties from between the Alambagh and the Residency, from September 25 to 27, were severe, about 585 of all ranks, including the wounded killed in the dolis, but the greatest loss of all was the fall of Brigadier-General J. Neill. Havelock and Outram were followed through opened barricade by some smoke-begrimed soldiers, who shook the hands of ladies, and caught up and embraced the little children who had assembled to greet their rescuers. Most of the British wounded were moved safely along the river bank into the Residency; but 40 were misled by a brave Bengal Civil servant with local knowledge, who, learning that his cousin, Lieutenant Havelock, was severely hit, had volunteered to go out from the Residency to guide in the wounded.
