He had lately come into contact with a man who had breathed into him the fire and spirit belonging to legendary heroes.

To this man, short of words and plain of dress, nothing was impossible, and Harry caught from him not merely the belief, but the conviction also.
Late in the autumn the Invincibles, who had suffered severely at Bull Run and afterward had been cut down greatly in several small actions in the mountains, had been transferred to the command of Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley.

Disease and the hospital had reduced the regiment to less than three hundred, but their spirits were as high as ever.

Their ranks were renewed partly with Virginians.

Colonel Talbot and Lieutenant-Colonel St.Hilaire had recovered from small wounds, and St.Clair and Langdon were whole and as hard as iron.