comfortable as on the Kreuzberg, and kept constantly finding battalions
that he wanted to thank and say good evening to, until there we were
again under fire. But he has had to hear so much about it, that he will
leave it alone for the future, and you can be at ease; besides, I hardly
believe in another real battle.

If you have _no_ news of a person, you can all implicitly believe that
he lives and is well, as all casualties occurring to one's acquaintances
are known in twenty-four hours at the longest. We have not come at all
into communication with Herwarth and Steinmetz, but know that they are
both well. G----- quietly leads his squadron with his arm in a sling.
Good-bye, I must go on duty.

YOUR MOST TRUE V.B.


TO HIS WIFE

Note.--This letter did not reach its destination, but, together with the
entire post, was captured by franc-tireurs and published by a French
newspaper.

VENDRESSE, 3 September [1870].

_My Dear Heart_:

I left my present quarters before early dawn the day before
yesterday, came back to-day, and have in the mean time
witnessed the great battle of Sedan, in which we made about
thirty thousand prisoners, and threw the remainder of the