He shouted to St.Clair, who had run forward in amazement: "Gone on a mission for Old Jack.

Will be back--some time." The cavalry troop of two hundred splendid men, led by Sherburne, one of the finest of the younger leaders, trotted fast through the oak forest.
They were fully refreshed and they were glad of action.

The great heats of that famous summer, unusually hot alike in both east and west, were gone, and now the cool, crisp breezes of autumn blew in their faces.
"Have you heard at what point on the Potomac the Union army is gathered ?" Harry asked.
"At a village called Berlin, so our spies say.

You know McClellan really has some high qualities.

We found a heavy reconnoitering force of cavalry not far in our front two or three days ago, and we did not know what it meant, but General Jackson now has an idea that McClellan wanted to find out whether we were near enough to the Potomac to dispute his passage." "We are not." "No, we're not, and I don't suppose General Lee and General Jackson wish to keep him on the other side.