The ground was clear and clean between them, and any force that attempted to cross it to attack would be cut to pieces, as sure as anything.

We laid there three or four days watching each other--just like boys at school, who shake fists and dare each other.

At one place the Rebel line ran out towards us like the top of a great letter 'A.' The night of the 11th of May it rained very hard, and then came a fog so thick that you couldn't see the length of a company.

Hancock thought he'd take advantage of this.
We were all turned out very quietly about four o'clock in the morning.
Not a bit of noise was allowed.

We even had to take off our canteens and tin cups, that they might not rattle against our bayonets.