You know that Lee and Old Jack and Jim Longstreet have arranged for everything." They ate their suppers, and, the general giving them leave, they lay down in the tent next to his, wrapped in their blankets.

Harry slept soundly, but while the pitchy darkness of a winter night still enclosed the land he was awakened by a heavy rumbling noise.

His nerves had been attuned so highly by exciting days that he was awake in an instant and sprang to his feet, Dalton also springing up with equal promptness.
They saw General Jackson standing in front of his tent and peering down in the darkness toward the river.

Other officers were already gathering near him.

Harry and Dalton stood at attention, where he could see them, if he wished to send them on any errand.