I said you'd give a million dollars to be able to tell, but if you're to measure such things with money it would be worth a hundred million an' more, yes, it would be cheap at three or four hundred millions for the North to know it.

But, after all, you can't measure such things with money.

Maybe you think I talk a heap, but I'm stirred some, too." They rode on a little farther over the hilly ground, covered with thick forest or dense, tall scrub.

But there were troops, troops, everywhere, and now and then the batteries.

They were mostly boys, like their antagonists of the North, and the sleep of most of them was the sleep of exhaustion, after a forced and rapid march over heavy ground from Corinth.