Girlish days. My first marriage and birth of my first child. My husband summoned to the Italian war of 1859

Period of war. A wife’s anxieties. Terrible news

Years of widowhood. Re-entry into society. Introduction to Baron Tilling. Manner of my husband’s death

Progress of my friendship for Tilling. His mother’s death. Growth of love

Doubts and fears. Engagement to Tilling

Marriage and garrison life. Outbreak of the Schleswig-Holstein war. History of its causes

My husband ordered off to the war. Premature confinement and deadly peril. Letters from the seat of war

Re-union. Financial ruin

Approach of the Austro-Prussian war. The preliminaries to it. War declared

Early period of the war

War-sketches by a soldier who abhors war

After KÖniggrÄtz. My experiences in a journey over the Bohemian battlefields in search of my husband

Prussian advance on Vienna. Life at Grumitz

Festivities at Grumitz, followed by an outbreak of cholera which sweeps off nearly the whole family

Period of mourning. Discussion with a military chaplain. Death of Aunt Mary

Threat of war between France and Prussia. Arbitration. Life in Paris during the exhibition of 1868 and afterwards in 1870. Birth of a daughter

Approach of war between France and Prussia. We linger in Paris. War breaks out

The Franco-German war. Departure from Paris prevented by illness. Siege of Paris. My husband shot by the Communards

The end. “Hail to the future!”