But Harry did not know any of these officers and he felt a little lonely.

He slept after a while in the car seat, awakened at times by the jolting or stopping of the train, and arrived some time the next day in a country of green hills and red clay roads, muddy from heavy rains.
They left the train, marched over the hills along one of the muddy roads, and presently saw a vast array of tents, fires, and earthworks, stretching to the horizon.

Harry's heart leaped again.

This was the great army of the South.

Here were regiments and regiments, thousands and thousands of men and here he would find his friends, Colonel Talbot and Major St.Hilaire, and St.Clair and Langdon.
The whole scene was inspiring in the extreme to the heart of youth.
Far to the right he saw cavalry galloping back and forth, and to the left he saw infantry drilling.