You, Warner, Pennington, that very capable sergeant, Whitley, and others whom you know are to go with me.

My force will number about three hundred and the horses are already waiting on the other side." They were carried over the river on one of the boats, and the little company, mounting, prepared to ride into the dark woods.

But before they disappeared, Dick looked back and saw many lights gleaming in captured Donelson.

Once more the magnitude of Grant's victory impressed him.
Certainly he had struck a paralyzing blow at the Southern army in the west.
But the ride in the dark over a wild and thinly-settled country soon occupied Dick's whole attention.

He was on one side of Colonel Winchester and Warner was on the other.