They were all eager, full of enthusiasm, anxious to be led against the enemy, and confident of triumph.
Grant and his army, meanwhile, lying in the bleak forest beside the Tennessee, knew little of what was being said of them in the great world without.

All their thoughts were of Donelson, across there on the other river, and the men asked to be led against it.

Inured to the hardships of border life, there was little sickness among them, despite the winter and the overflow of the flooded streams.

They gathered the dead wood that littered the forest, built numerous fires, and waited as patiently as they could for the word to march.
The Pennsylvanians were still camped with the Kentucky regiment to which Dick now belonged, and the fifth evening after the capture of Henry he and his friends sat by one of the big fires.
"We'll advance either tomorrow or the next day," said Warner.

"The chances are at least ninety per cent in favor of my statement.