Who are you ?" "I'm Lieutenant Richard Mason of Colonel Arthur Winchester's Kentucky regiment.

I was taken prisoner by the enemy last night, but I escaped this morning.

Do you know where my regiment is ?" "Keep straight on, and you'll strike it or what's left of it, if anything at all is left.

It's a black day." Dick scarcely caught his last words, as he dashed on through bullets, shell and solid shot over slain men and horses, over dismantled guns and gun carriages, and into the very heart of the flame and smoke.
The thunder of the battle was at its height now, because he was in the center of it.

The roar of the great guns was continuous, but the unbroken crash of rifles by the scores of thousands was fiercer and more deadly.
The officer had pointed toward the Kentucky regiment with his sword, and following the line Dick ran directly into it.