CHAPTER X.BEFORE DONELSON.
Dick was the first in Colonel Winchester's troop to see the white flag floating over Fort Henry and he uttered a shout of joy.
"Look! look!" he cried, "the fleet has taken the fort!" "So it has," said Colonel Winchester, "and the army is not here.

Now I wonder what General Grant will say when he learns that Foote has done the work before he could come." But Dick believed that General Grant would find no fault, that he would approve instead.

The feeling was already spreading among the soldiers that this man, whose name was recently so new among them, cared only for results.

He was not one to fight over precedence and to feel petty jealousies.
The smoke of battle was beginning to clear away.

Officers were landing from the boats to receive the surrender of the fort, and Colonel Winchester and his troops galloped rapidly back toward the army, which they soon met, toiling through swamps and even through shallow overflow toward the Tennessee.