The Duke of Newcastle, the English secretary of war, passed along word to Lord Raglan that “the Queen desires that you will take measures for making known her no less warm approval of the services of all officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers who have so gloriously won by their blood, freely shed, fresh honours for the army of a country which sympathizes as deeply with their privations and exertions as it glories in their victories and exults in their fame.