Westways

There will be many people in this book; some will be important, others will come on the scene for a time and return no more. The life-lines of these persons will cross and recross, to meet once or twice and not again, like the ruts in a much used road. To-day the stage may be crowded, to-morrow empty.
By Silas Weir Mitchell, an American neurologist and writer of the nineteenth-twentieth centuries. Westways was written after he was 80 and it describes his memory of the horrors of the battle of Get