"A Yankee general with a hundred thousand men will be out lookin' for what?
Not for a gang of robbers, not by a jugful.

He'll be lookin' for a rebel general with another hundred thousand men, an' the rebel general with a hundred thousand men will be lookin' for that Yankee general with his hundred thousand.

So there you are, an' while they're lookin' for each other an' then fightin' each other to a standstill, the robbers will be plunderin' an' murderin'.

But don't you worry about bein' ambushed.

I was jest tellin' you what might happen, but wouldn't happen.