How can we ever defeat an army as large as our own inside powerful works ?" But Dick was learning fast and he had a keen eye.
"We have not failed utterly," he said.

"Don't you see that we have here a projection into the enemy's lines, and if those reinforcements come it will be thrust further and further?
I tell you that general of ours is a bull dog.

He will never let go." Yet there was little but gloom in the Union camp.

The short winter day, somber and heavy with clouds, was drawing to a close.

The field upon which the assault had taken place was within the sweep of the Southern guns.