What chance have they, Harry?
What chance have they ?" "Very little that I can see, but a battle is never won or lost until it's fought.

We'd better report now to General Jackson." They saluted General Stuart, and rode away over the icy mud.

General Jackson received their report with pleasure.
"Excellent! Excellent!" he said.

"General Stuart has routed them with horse artillery! A capable man! A most wonderful man!" He said the last words to himself, rather than to Harry, and Stuart soon proved that his horse artillery was not underrated by winning a second encounter with the gunboats a day or two later.

Early also beat back an attempt to cross the river at a third place, and it became apparent now that the Union army could make no flanking attack upon its enemy south of the Rappahannock.