But it will take us all to repel the enemy.

Kenton here, who saw them well, says they have a fine, disciplined force." The men now dismounted and led their horses to a little grove just in the rear of the warehouse, where they were tethered under the guard of the villagers, all red-hot partisans of the South.

Then the four hundred men, armed with rifles and carbines, disposed themselves about the warehouse, the bulk of them watching the road along which the attacking force was almost sure to come.
Harry took his place with Sherburne, and once more he was compelled to admire the young captain's tact and charm of manner.

He directed everything by example and suggestion, but all the while he made the heavy Captain McGee think that he himself was doing it.
Sherburne and Harry walked down the road a little distance.
"Aren't you glad to be here, Kenton ?" asked the captain in a somewhat whimsical tone.
"I'm glad to help, of course." "Yes, but there's more.

When I came to war I came to fight.