What do you say, sergeant ?" "I'd raise the ninety per cent to one hundred," replied Whitley.

"We are all ready an' as you've observed, gentlemen, General Grant is a man who acts." "The Johnnies evidently expect us," said Pennington.

"Our scouts have seen their cavalry in the woods watching us, but only in the last day or two.

It's strange that they didn't begin it earlier." "They say that General Pillow, who commands them, isn't of much force," said Dick.
"Well, it looks like it," said Warner, "but from what we hear he'll have quite an army at Donelson.

General Grant will have his work cut out for him.