The North, larger and heavier, moved more slowly, but it moved.

The whole land swayed under an intense agitation.
The news of skirmishes along the border came, magnified and colored in the telling.

Men's minds were inflamed more every day.
When Harry had been in Frankfort about a week he received a letter from St.Clair, written from Richmond, urging him, if he could, to get an assignment to the East, and to come to that city, which was to be the permanent capital of the South.
"We are here," he said, "looking the enemy in the face.

Langdon and I are in the same company and I see Colonel Talbot and Major St.Hilaire every day.

We are going to the front soon, and before the summer is out there will be a big battle followed by our taking of Washington." "But you must come, Harry, to Richmond and join us before we march.
This is a fine town and all the celebrities are crowding in.