Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — SERGEANT LEVICK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SERGEANT LEVICK.

He Is a Survivor of the Six Hundred o 1 Balaklava. Sergeant John Leviclr, now living at Indianapolis, is a survivor of that famous charge made at Balaklava, now a little over thirty-seven years ago. A dispute having arisen recently regarding the genuineness of a brass medal owned by another Indiana man, who claims to have .been at that famous battte, and which was given to him as a decoration for having participated in the horrors of that awful clay, Levick says: “I am wearing the only kind of decoration (medal with four clasps fpr Alma, Balaklava, In-

kermann and Sebastopol), except the Victoria Cross, given by the British government or by the Sultan Abdul Medjid of Turkey, to the survivors of the charge, or to any soldier for services in the Crimea. Both are of sterling silver and in diameter a little less than a silver dollar, but are a little thicker.” Mr. Levick further insists, and says he has no fear of successful contradiction, that he is the only survivor of the charge, not only in Indiana but in America.