Excerpt from Belle Boyd, in Camp and Prison, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Introduction At the time Of my presentation to Mrs. Hare dinge, above alluded to, I found the lady in very great distress of mind and body. She was Sick, without money, and driven almost to distraction by the cruel news that her husband was suffer ing the tender mercies of a Federal prison. Lieutenant Hardinge was in irons and his friends were prohibited from sending him food or clothing! Letters addressed to his young wife, containing remittances, were intercepted; and thus I found her, not quite friendless, in this great wilderness Of London, but, what is worse, absolutely desti tute Of that indispensable and all-prevailing. Friend - money. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.