Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places is a memoir by Archibald Forbes was a Scottish war correspondent. 

Excerpts:

The interval between the declaration of the Franco-German war of 1870-71, and the "military promenade," at which the poor Prince Imperial received his "baptism of fire," was a pleasant, lazy time at Saarbrücken; to which pretty frontier town I had early betaken myself, in the anticipation, which proved well founded, that the tide of war would flow that way first.