7/33 So long, I see some of our generals coming out on the bluffs with their glasses. I suppose we mustn't appear too friendly." "Good-bye, Mr.Shepard. We've lost Jackson, but we've many a good man yet. I think our next great battle will be farther north." They had not spoken as enemies, but as friends who held different views upon an important point, and now they rowed back peacefully, each to his own shore. With Stuart's matchless cavalry it numbered nearly eighty thousand men, most of them veterans, and a cry for invasion came from the South. |