"I've just come from Richmond, where I met my chief, that valiant man, Colonel Leonidas Talbot.

I have been serving mostly on the coast of the Carolinas, and when I asked to be sent to the larger theater of war they very naturally assigned me to one of my own home regiments.

Alas! there is plenty of room for me and many more in the ranks of the Invincibles." "We have been well shot up, that's true," said Langdon, whom nothing could depress more than a minute, "but we've put more than a million Yankees out of the running." "How are your Knights of the Golden Circle getting on ?" asked Harry.
Bertrand flushed a little, despite his swarthiness.
"Not very well, I fear," he replied.

"It has taken us longer to conquer the Yankees than we thought." "I don't see that we've begun to conquer them as a people or a section," said St.Clair, who was always frank and direct.

"We've won big victories, but just look and you'll see 'em across the river there, stronger and more numerous than ever, and that, too, on the heels of the big defeat they sustained at Fredericksburg.