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The Austrian Reverses Increase -- Sketches from the Seat of War, Showing Its Realities, as Viewed by a Soldier Who Abhors War -- Death of Poor Puxl -- My Husband Avows His Determination Never to Serve in Another Campaign.
"Never was such a thing heard of -- defeat after defeat. First the village of Podol, barricaded by Clam-Gallas, carried by storm, taken in the night by moonlight, and by the light of the conflagration. Then Gitchin conquered. The needle-gun, the cursed needle-gun, mows our troops down by whole ranks at a time. The two great army corps of the enemy, that commanded by the Crown Prince and that under Prince Fr. Karl, have joined, and are pressing forward against Münchengrätz. " Thus sounded the terrible news, and my father communicated it with as great a degree of lamentation as he had shown joy in telling us the victorious news from Custoza. But his confidence was not yet shaken.