Dick looked upon faces brown with the sun, and eyes gleaming with the fierce passion of victory and revenge.

They were going to avenge Henry and Donelson and all the long and mortifying retreat from Kentucky.

Dick saw them straining and looking eagerly at their officers for the word to advance.
As if by a concerted signal the long and mellow peal of many trumpets came from the front, the officers uttered the shout to charge, the wild and terrible rebel yell swelled from forty thousand throats, and the Southern army rushed upon its foe.
The red dawn of Shiloh had come..