"You'll never have any excuse for wearing so much gold.

Have you heard what one of the boys said after the chaplain preached the sermon to us last Sunday about leading the children of Israel forty years through the wilderness ?" "No, George; what was it ?" "Forty years going through the wilderness," he growled.

"Why, Stonewall Jackson would have double-quicked 'em through in three days, and on half rations, too." "And so he would," exclaimed Harry with emphasis.

The great affection and admiration in which his troops held Jackson began to be tinged with something that bordered upon superstition.

They regarded his mental powers, his intuition, judgment and quickness as something almost supernatural.