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Ruin of the Austrian Cause at Königgrätz -- Dr. Bresser at the Seat of War -- I Resolve to Join Him and Seek for My Husband -- Aspect of the Railway Station and Line in a Time of Defeat -- The Journey -- The Regimental Surgeon's Experiences of the Horrors of War -- I Arrive at the Seat of War and Meet Dr. Bresser and Frau Simon -- Night Journey to Horonewos -- The Horrors I Saw There -- I Sink Exhausted Under Them, and Am Carried Back by Dr. Bresser to Vienna -- My Father Takes Me Home, and There I Am Joined by My Husband, Who Had Been Wounded.
The battle of Königgrätz had been fought. Another defeat! And this time as it seemed a decisive one. My father communicated the news to us in such a tone as he would have used in announcing the end of the world.