BATTLE'S EVE Harry found little change in the Southern army, except that more troops had come up from Richmond.

It still rested upon Bull Run.

The country here was old, having been cropped for many generations, the soil mostly clay and cut in deep ruts.

There were many ravines and water courses, and hillocks were numerous.

Colonel Talbot had told Harry a month before that it was not a bad place for a battle ground, and he remembered it now as he came back to it.