He leaves the possible to ordinary men.

See him.
He didn't even stop to look back while our rear guard returned to help drive off the Yankees." The sun was near the zenith and the afternoon grew warm.

They had come upon hard, dry paths, and under the tread of the army great clouds of dust arose, but it did not float high in the air, the thick boughs of the trees and bushes catching it.

But as it hovered so close to the ground it made the breathing of the soldiers difficult and painful.
It rasped their throats, and soon they began to burn with the heat.
Many fell exhausted beside the paths, but they were helped by their comrades or were put into the wagons, and the long column of steel never ceased to wind onward.
Near the middle of the afternoon, when they were about to cross the western extension of the plank road, a young cavalry officer galloped up and rode straight for Jackson.

It was Fitzhugh Lee, whose services were great at Chancellorsville.