The Life of General Garibaldi: Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.Garibaldi, Giuseppe
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The Life of General Garibaldi: Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882
"The enemy still held the heights; but discovering only a small force in
Caserta, had projected its capture, ignorant, no doubt, of the result of
the battle of the previous day, and, therefore, pushed half his force
upon that city. While I was thus marching under cover, on the right
flank of the enemy, he attacked Caserta in front, and would, perhaps,
have gained it, if General Sistori, with his accustomed bravery, and a
band of valorous men, had not repulsed him. With the Calabrians of
General Stocco and four companies of the northern army, I proceeded
against the enemy, who was charged—resisted but little, and was driven
almost at a run to Old Caserta. There a small number of the enemy
sustained themselves for a moment, firing from windows, but they were
soon surrounded and made prisoners. Those who fled in advance fell into
the hands of the soldiers of Bixio, who, after fighting bravely on the
first at Maddaloni, arrived on the field of battle like lightning. Those
who remained behind capitulated with Sacchi, whom I had ordered to
follow the movement of my column; so that, of all the enemy's corps, few
were able to escape. This corps, it appears, was the same which had
attacked Bronzetti at Castel Morono—and that his heroic defence, with
his handful of brave soldiers, had restrained them the greater part of
the day, thus preventing them from getting into the rear all that day.
The corps of Sacchi also contributed to detain that column beyond the
Park of Caserta on the first day by repulsing it bravely.
"G. GARIBALDI.
"CASERTA, _October_, 1860."
GARIBALDI'S PERSONAL HEROISM.
A correspondent of the Paris "Journal des Débats" says:
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