tovo-n'ender of Amiens. o4;3 



had nothing to eat since yesterday morning. I therefore went 

 to General von Kummer, who gave me at once an order for 

 meat, meat extr-ict, and other things required ; but to provide 

 for the moment I, with the permission of the kind-hearted 

 general, robbed his own kitchen. He said his staff might live 

 on half-rations for a day, and I answered it would serve him 

 and them right, and that I was glad they had to do pennance for 

 having robbed me, two days ago, of my quarters, exposing n^e 

 to attacks of a whole army-corps of ferocious little French 

 brown hussars. 



On November 29, after having attended to the w^ounded in 

 Moreuil, I went to Amiens, of which the citadel was not yet 

 in our hands ; it surrendered, however, the next day, after its 

 brave commander had found the death desired by him, in 

 mounting on the crest of the wall, making thus of himself a 

 target for our sharp-shooters. 



I was quartered in the house of an eminent lawyer, where 

 we had very good rooms and were extremely well taken care 

 of. 



On December i. Dr. Busch and I drove to Boves, where we 

 found only twelve of our wounded, but two hundred wounded 

 French soldiers, under the care of French doctois, who were 

 very polite and kind to us We breakfasted at the chateau of 

 Boves, belonging to Bareness de Vaubert, who did a great 

 deal for the wounded. 



We visited, in Boves^ the English Colonel Cox and his wife, 

 who had there a depot of the International Society for the aid 

 of the wounded Though the sympathy of these English was 

 said tc be more with the French than with us I cannot com- 

 plain that they showed any partiality, but have only to acknow- 

 ledge their readiness to assist us, and their doing so with no 

 nnt, but in tl. most Hberal manner I received from them, 

 amongst oth . things, several fine surgical instruments and 

 also a -plendid ; npntation case, which I gave to Dn von 

 Kiihlewetter, P'-ofessor Busch's skilful assistant. 



Cclonel Cox was a tall, thin, particularly English-looking 

 P^nglirhman, and Mrs. Cox a little, very active, English lady. 

 I shall have to mention them on another occasion, where they 

 rendered us the most important services in great need. They 

 gave us now a whole waggon-load of excellent things, amongst 

 which were many delicacies and a good quantity of very valu- 



