We're just having a conversation." "All right," said Dalton, laughing, "but I gave you my opinion." Days of comparative idleness followed.

The Army of the Potomac moved farther up the river and settled itself around the village of Falmouth.
The Army of Northern Virginia faced it, and along the hillsides the young Southern soldiers erected sign posts, on the boards of which were painted, in letters large enough for the Union glasses to see, the derisive words: THIS WAY TO RICHMOND.