There were provided two ambulances with six mules each, two baggage-wagons, an escort of six calvarymen fully armed, and a guide.

Lieutenant Bailey was to accompany his wife on the trip.
I was genuinely sorry to part with Major Worth, but in the excitement and fatigue of breaking up our home, I had little time to think of my feelings.

My young child absorbed all my time.

Alas! for the ignorance of young women, thrust by circumstances into such a situation! I had miscalculated my strength, for I had never known illness in my life, and there was no one to tell me any better.

I reckoned upon my superbly healthy nature to bring me through.