"It is a pleasing thing to see that, despite the war, the young still show courtesy to their elders.
You will bear in mind, Hector, when this game is resumed at a proper time and place, that the position of one of your knights was very delicate." "Assuredly I will not forget it, Leonidas.

It will be no trouble to either of us to replace them exactly as they were at a moment's notice." Harry and Dalton were compelled now to return to General Jackson, and they did so, after leaving many thanks with their generous hosts.
Heavy winter rains began.

The country on both sides of the Rappahannock became a vast sea of mud, and the soldiers had to struggle against all the elements, because the rains were icy and the mud formed a crust through which they broke in the morning.
While they lingered here news came of the great battle in the West, fought on the last day of the old year and the first day of the new, along the banks of Stone River.

Harry and his comrades looked for a triumph there like that which they had won, and they were deeply disappointed when they heard the result.
Harry had a copy of a Richmond paper and he was reading from it to an attentive circle, but he stopped to comment: "Ours was the smaller army, but we drove them back and held a part of the field.

Two or three days later we withdrew to Chattanooga.