We've got seventy thousand men of our own, and Lee and Jackson, who, as you have been told before, are equal to a hundred thousand more.

McClellan will march out again faster than he has marched in." "Still, he's shown more capacity than the other Union generals in the East, and his soldiers are devoted to him." "But he isn't swift, Harry.

While he's thinking, Lee and Jackson have thought and are acting.

Queer, isn't it, that a young general should be slow, and older ones so much swifter.

Why, General Lee must be nearly old enough to be General McClellan's father." "It's so, Captain, but those men are crossing fast.