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Synopsis
Excerpt from With an Ambulance During the Franco-German War: Personal Experiences and Adventures With Both Armies, 1870-1871
It was written in 1873, and is simply an em bodiment of a series of notes or jottings, taken during the war in my spare moments, together with the contents of a number of descriptive letters to my friends. They were written solely for them, and nothing was farther from my mind at the time than the idea of publication.
Thus, they remained in a recess of my study for nearly a quarter of a century, until a new generation had grown up around me; and doubt less, but for their friendly importunity, there they would have lain until the memory of their author, like the ink in which they were written, had faded to a blank.
I would ask my readers to bear in their kindly recollection that the scope of such a work as the following must of necessity be limited.
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