We took passage on the hospital transport Thomas, bound for Cairo, with eighty wounded soldiers from the Red River expedition, all discharged or Furloughed for home.
"A Woman's Life-Work Labors and Experiences"
Laura S. Haviland
What does it mean that the Prussian government has suddenly dispatched orders to all provincial authorities to recall the Furloughed soldiers and proceed to another draft; that artillery-horses are bought, and a vast quantity of uniforms made?"
"NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER"
L. Muhlbach
Desertions were very numerous, both to the enemy and to the rear, and I early found that the army had at last succumbed, not to the enemy in front, but to the discontent, the murmurings, despondency and demoralization among the people at home, who infused their hopeless dejection, by Furloughed men returning to their commands, and by letters.
"Lee's Last Campaign"
John C. Gorman