About This Book
A first-person campaign journal recounts daily movements and observations during operations around a besieged Rhineland city, noting routes, cantonments, reconnaissance of enemy works, and the disposition of batteries and outlying villages. It records camp life and morale—officers' talk, music, entertainments, and visits with nobility—alongside rumors, an encounter with a deluded clergyman, and a wounded comrade's recovery. Tactical sketches and geographic impressions alternate with reflections on the uncertainty of wartime intelligence, culminating in a tense night alarm when distant small-arms fire suggested a surprise attack.
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