were driving northward and eastward on
every road. The Doctor said little. Tears were in his eyes and sobs in
his voice. I had never seen him thus.
We reached the Sanitary Camp. The tents were already struck, and the
wagons ready to move.
"Stay here one moment, my boy," the Doctor said.
He left me and approached an ambulance, into which I could not see; all
its curtains were down. He raised the corner of a curtain, remained
there while one might count a hundred--or a million--and came back
to me.
"Now get in, Jones," he said, preparing to mount his horse.
I got in.
By my side was a woman ... weeping.
* * * * *
Lee's guns are grumbling in all the southwest quadrant of the horizon.
In the west Gregg's cavalry impedes the advance of A.P. Hill; in the
south Fitzhugh Lee is pressing hard upon Buford.
The retreat continues; I hold a woman's hand in mine.
* * * * *
Past the middle of an autumn night, where thick forests added to the
darkness fitfully relieved by the fires of hasty bivouacs, there sat,
apart from cannon and bayonets and sleeping battalions, a group
of three.
One was a man of years and of thought and of many virtues--at least a
sage, at least a hero.
One was a woman, young and sweet and pure and devoted.
One was a common soldier.
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