In the moonlight they looked as if they were dead.

It was so quiet now that some night birds in the trees uttered strange moaning cries.

But far across Bull Run lights still moved and Harry had no doubt that the great battle, delayed so long, was really coming in the morning.
The North Carolina regiment rose sleepily and marched with him to the bridge, where it was incorporated into the force of Evans.

Beauregard, Johnston and Early had gone to other points, and Harry knew that they were still anxious and of divided opinions.

Colonel Talbot and Lieutenant-Colonel St.Hilaire, to whom he had to report, and who moved their own regiment down near Evans, did not conceal the fact from him.
"Harry," said the colonel, "we're all sure that we'll have to fight on the morrow, and it looks as if the battle would come in the greatest weight here at the bridge, but the Invincibles must be prepared for anything.