Chapter XXXIII: Part III: For the Health of the Soldiers

(1856-1861)

We can do no more for those who have suffered and died in their
country's service; they need our help no longer; their spirits are
with God who gave them. It remains for us to strive that their
sufferings may not have been endured in vain--to endeavour so to
learn from experience as to lessen such sufferings in future by
forethought and wise management.--FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (Reply to
Address from the Parishioners of East Wellow, Dec. 1856).