We'd merely beat ourselves to pieces against it; but their right has no protection at all, that is, no trenches or breastworks.

I thought you boys might be wanted presently, and, as I saw you sleeping here, I've awakened you.
Look down there and you'll see something that I think the Northern army has cause to dread." Harry and Dalton looked at a little open space in the center of which Lee and Jackson sat, having met for another talk, each on an empty cracker box, taken from a heap which the Northern army had left behind when it withdrew the day before.

The generals faced each other and two or three men were standing by.

One of them was a major named Hotchkiss, whom Harry knew.
Harry and Dalton did not hear the words said, but one of those present subsequently told them much that was spoken at this last and famous conference.

A man named Welford had recently cut a road toward the northwest through the Wilderness in order that he might haul wood and iron ore to a furnace that he had built.