A brilliant moon and a myriad of stars made the night so bright that Harry saw for a long time the splendid man on the splendid horse, leading his men to some new task.

Then he lay down and slept heavily until dawn.

They remained in the fort two days longer, and then came an order from Beauregard for them to abandon it, and rejoin the main army.

The shifting of forces had now made the place useless to either side, and the Invincibles and their new comrades gladly marched back over the mountain and into the lowlands.
Harry found a letter from his father awaiting him.

Colonel Kenton was now in Tennessee, where he had been joined by a large number of recruits from Kentucky.