The memoir compiles contemporary letters and reports by officers, relief workers, and women volunteers who helped embark sick and wounded soldiers from a peninsula campaign. It describes how hospital transports were assembled and staffed, procedures for triage and embarkation, onboard nursing and sanitation, coordination between relief agents and military authorities, the logistical difficulties of moving large numbers of patients by sea, and the moral impressions and sacrifices observed. Firsthand anecdotes and administrative observations are interwoven to portray both the practical operations and the human cost of the evacuation.