An order came from Beauregard, and, with Colonel Talbot at their head, they took up their arms, marching to one of the fords of Bull Run, where they lay down among trees near a battery.

They were forbidden to talk, but they whispered, nevertheless.
The ford before them was Blackburn's, and the heavy attack of the Northern army would be made there in the morning.
Harry and the Invincibles were at the very edge of the river.

They had been under heavy fire before, but, nevertheless, everything they now saw or heard played upon their nerves.

The murmur of the little river was multiplied thrice.

Every time a bayonet or a saber rattled it smote with sharpness upon the ear.