By the side of him was Hardee, the famous tactician, taught in the best schools of both America and Europe.

Then there was Polk, who, when a youth, had left the army to enter the church and become a bishop, and who was now a soldier again and a general.

Next to the bishop-general sat the man who had been Vice-President of the United States and who, if the Democracy had held together would now have been in the chair of Lincoln, John C.
Breckinridge, called by his people the Magnificent, commonly accounted the most splendid looking man in America.
"Bring the prisoner forward, Colonel Kenton," said General Johnston, a general upon whom the South, with justice, rested great hopes.
Dick stepped forward at once and he held himself firmly, as he felt the eyes of the six generals bent upon him.

He was conscious even at the moment that chance had given him a great opportunity.

He was there to see, while the military genius of the South planned in the shadow of a dark ravine a blow which the six intended to be crushing.
"Where was the prisoner taken ?" said Johnston to Colonel Kenton.
"Sergeant Robertson and three other men of my command seized him as he was about to enter the Northern lines.