Then he leaped lightly into the saddle and was gone.
"A brave and true spirit, if I know one," said Harry.

"And now come, George, the sooner we get back to Old Jack's headquarters the better it will be for us." "Do you think Hooker's army can cross ?" asked Dalton, looking at the black river.
"Of course it can.

Remember that they have four hundred guns with which they can cover a passage.

Didn't Burnside build his bridges and force the crossing in our face, when we had twenty thousand more men than we have now, and the Union army had twenty thousand less?
Their line is so long and they are so much superior in numbers that we can't guard all the river.

As I take it, Lee and Old Jack will not make any great opposition to the crossing, but there will be a thunderation of a time after it's made." It was sunrise when they reached their own headquarters and entered the great mess tent, where some of the officers who had not gone to the ball were already eating breakfast.