It was obvious that the regimental sanitars had been there before us because there were many new roughly made graves.

There were letters too and post cards lying about all heavy with wet and dirt.

I picked up some of these--letters from lovers and sisters and brothers.

One letter I remember in a large baby-hand from a boy to his father telling him about his lessons and his drill, 'because he would soon be a soldier.' One letter, too, from a girl to her lover saying that she had had a dream and knew now that her 'dear Franz, whom she loved with all her soul, would return to her!...

I am quite confident now that we shall be happy here again very soon....' In such a place, those words." As he walked alone there he felt, as I had felt before the battle of S----, that he had already been there.