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IN THE FOREST.
Dick spent a week or more in Nashville and he saw the arrival of one of General Grant's divisions on the fleet under Commodore Foote.

Once more he appreciated the immense value of the rivers and the fleet to the North.
He and the two lads who were now knitted to him by sympathy, and hardships and dangers shared, enjoyed their stay in Nashville.

It was pleasant to sleep once more in houses and to be sheltered from rain and frost and snow.

It was pleasant, too, for these youths, who were devoted to the Union, to think that their armies had made such progress in the west.