Warner was with him and both stood by the side of Major Hertford, ready to receive and deliver his orders.

Dick now heard besides the firing in front the confused murmur and moving of the Union army.
Few of these troops had been in battle before--the same could be said of the soldiers on the other side--and this attack in the half-light troubled them.

They wished to see the men who were going to shoot at them, in order that they might have a fair target in return.

Fighting in the night was scarcely fair.

One never knew what to do.