ABSTRACT
As a rule, the supporters of the Diet side returned to their prewar interests. Louis Rilliet-de Constant, member of the War Council and commander of the First Division in 1849, turned down an offer from the newly founded Roman Republic to become its minister of war, preferring instead to stay with the more established Swiss army. Guillaume Henri Dufour, in response, had sent Dunant a letter thanking him for disabusing people of what they took to be the glory of war. He certainly was still active enough to accept the chairmanship of a relief committee for the victims of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. For the most part, the war and the people who took sides in it have turned into mere names or into brief references in a history book here or there, and beyond Switzerland's borders, the silence is near complete.
