So the general orders." They walked back toward the place where the victorious troops were lighting the fires, out of the range of the cannon in the Confederate intrenchments.

They were exultant, but they were not boasting unduly.
Night, cold and dark, had shut down upon them and was taking the heat out of their blood.

Hundreds of men were at work building fires, and Dick and Warner, with the permission of Major Hertford, joined them.
Both boys felt that the work would be a relief.

Wood was to be had in abundance.

The forest stretched on all sides of them in almost unbroken miles, and the earth was littered with dead wood fallen a year or years before.