After that come back here to me.

There's plenty to do," he added grimly; "we're just sending fifty patients to Alexandria, and twenty-five to Washington.

Oh, yes, there's plenty to do--plenty to do in this God-forsaken land.

And, it isn't battles that are keeping us busy." No, it was not battles that kept the doctors, nurses, and details for the ambulance corps busy at the front that first autumn and winter in Virginia.

Few patients required the surgeon, few wounded were received, victims of skirmish or sharpshooting or of their own comrades' carelessness.