Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War.: With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions

of my assertions. The one is from Miss Nightingale, and the other from Dr. Taylor:-- SCUTARI BARRACK HOSPITAL, _July 28th, 1856_. I have great pleasure in bearing my testimony to the very essential usefulness of Monsieur Soyer, who, first in the General Hospitals of Scutari, and afterwards in the Camp Hospitals of the Crimea, both general and regimental, restored order where all was unavoidable confusion, as far as he was individually able,--took the soldiers’ rations and patients’ diets as they were, and converted them into wholesome and agreeable food. I have tried his stoves in the Crimean hospitals where I have been employed, and found them answer every purpose of economy and efficiency. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. Monsieur Soyer’s cooking-stoves have been solely used in the Right and Left Wing Hospitals, Light Infantry Corps, during the last three months for the regimental hospital diets, for which they are admirably adapted as regards despatch, cleanliness, and economy. G. TAYLOR, M.D., _S. Surgeon, 1st Class_. _Crimea, 5th July, 1856._ It was on the way to these hospitals that the vehicle conveying Miss Nightingale and her nurses was upset, and they all had a most miraculous escape. It was drawn by a mule, and no doubt driven by a donkey, who drove over a large stone, and thus caused the accident. One of the nurses was severely wounded. After this accident, Colonel Macmurdo gave Miss Nightingale the carriage, a sketch of which appeared in the _Illustrated London News_ of the 30th August, 1856. Upon leaving the Crimea, after a long search, I succeeded in rescuing it from the hands of some Tartar Jews, as I considered it a precious relic for present and future generations. The Jews were going to purchase it the next day among a lot of common carts, harness, horses, &c. I called upon Colonel Evans, of the Light Infantry Corps, and spoke to him upon the subject, when he kindly allowed me to purchase it. I sent it to England by the _Argo_, and the sketch was taken on board that ship by Landells, the artist of that journal. It arrived