CHAPTER I. Preliminary. the Loss of Friends

PRELIMINARY. THE LOSS OF FRIENDS (AUGUST-DECEMBER 1861)

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Despondency after the death of Sidney Herbert--Sir George Lewis and the War Office--Lord de Grey reappointed under-secretary. II. "Saving things from the wreck"--The Herbert Hospital at Woolwich-- Captain Galton at the War Office--Barracks inquiry extended to the Mediterranean--Miss Nightingale and the Volunteers. III. The American Civil War--Miss Nightingale and the nursing--British reinforcements to Canada--Miss Nightingale "working as in the times of Sidney Herbert." IV. Miss Nightingale and Arthur Hugh Clough-- His assistance to her--His death (Nov. 1861)--Her grief--Letters of condolence--Her yearning for sympathy--Illness 3