Floyd, who might have sent word to his valiant and able chief, Johnston, did not take the trouble or forgot to inform him of his position.

Buckner wanted to attack Grant the next morning with the full Southern strength, and a comrade of his on old battlefields, Colonel George Kenton, seconded him ably.

The black-bearded Forrest strode back and forth, striking the tops of his riding boots with a small riding whip, and saying ungrammatically, but tersely and emphatically: "We mustn't stay here like hogs in a pen.

We must git at 'em with all our men afore they can git at us." The illiterate mountaineer and stock driver had evolved exactly the same principle of war that Napoleon used.
But Colonel Winchester and his comrades could only guess at what was going on in Donelson, and a guess always remains to be proved.

So they must continue their perilous quest.