Not only are populous cities, all throbbing with life and filled with innocent households, subjected to siege, but to bombardment also,--being that most ruthless trial of war, where non-combatants, including women and children, sick and aged, share with the soldier his peculiar perils, and suffer alike with him.
Sumner vividly describes the horrors of war, emphasizing the suffering of innocent civilians during bombardments.
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