...day, when my husband arrived, as bloody as a butcher and muddy as a ditcher. '"Why, Mary,' he called, 'what are you doing there, hugging Frank Cogdell, the greatest reprobate in the army?' (Cogdell was a neighbour and a close friend of Slocumb.) '"I don't care,' I said; 'Frank is a brave...

...arms and gave him a drink of water. When she raised her head, there before her stood her astonished husband, "as bloody as a butcher and as muddy as a ditcher." "Why, Mary," he exclaimed, "what are you doing there, hugging Frank Codgell, the greatest reprobate...

...Doctor! I dressed the wounds of many a brave fellow who did good fighting long after that day! . . . Just then I looked up, and my husband, as bloody as...Frank Cogdell, the greatest reprobate in the army?" ... I would not tell my husband what brought me there. I was so happy; and so were all! It was a glorious...