ON THE HEELS OF DE WET BY THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER ་ར་ཕེ FIFTH IMPRESSION WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS MCMII All Rights reserved FOREWORD. THIS short history is an amplification of a diary kept by the author during the late war, which amplification, through the courtesy of the editor, was published as a series of papers in Blackwood's Magazine.' The author is well aware of the shortcomings of his work, which he presents to the public in all humility, after asking pardon from such of the performers on his stage as may see through the slight veil of anonymity in which it has been attempted to enshroud them. If any should think the few criticisms which have crept into the text unjust, will they bear in mind that the regimental officer has suffered, in silence, much for the |