Excerpt from In Hospital and Camp: A Woman's Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War Many women, possessed Of independent means, were enabled, under the patronage of the Com missions, and under pretence of aiding the work in the hospitals, to behold the grandeur Of the Capitol, and gratify a taste for romantic adven ture. But how many of these Slept for nights under the white cover Of a tent, on the bare ground, and suffered the pangs Of starvation for days, while they bent over the festering wounds Of dying men? How many endured the horrible Sights Of mangled bodies, just brought in by the ambulance trains from the gory sods, whereon they fell when the foe met them? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.