A Diary Kept by Mrs. R. C. Germon, at Lucknow, Between the Months of May and December, 1857

Chapter 2: PREFACE.

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A day-by-day journal kept by a woman confined in Lucknow during the siege, combining domestic detail and personal anxiety with firsthand accounts of military activity, hospital care, bombardment, and civilian casualties. Entries record preparations, the arrival and movement of troops, and the routines that sustained residents under threat, while appended materials — a preface, letters, a plan of the defenses, and casualty lists — provide additional factual context and a practical record of life during the prolonged investment.

PREFACE.

The Writer of the following Diary has frequently been requested to have a few copies printed for circulation amongst her friends; she has now acceded to their request, but wishes it to be understood that the Diary is in its original wording, as it was written by her day by day at Lucknow, with no attempts at embellishment. The names of those who were actors in the fearful scenes have been omitted, from a feeling of delicacy towards some who are still alive.

The writer is also indebted to her husband, who commanded one of the outposts throughout the siege, for the accuracy of the statements of some of the events that did not come immediately under her own observation.