Colonel Kenton, looking at him out of the corner of his eyes, smiled.
"I fancied that you would be quite willing to go," he said.

"I had a letter this morning from a man who likes you well, Colonel Leonidas Talbot.

He is at Richmond and he says that President Davis, his cabinet, and all the equipment of a capital will arrive there about the last of the month.

The enemy is massing before Washington and also toward the West in the Maryland and Virginia mountains.

A great battle is sure to be fought in the summer and he wants you on his staff.