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The Scouts of Stonewall

CHAPTER X
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He reached the Potomac at midnight with less than half of his army, and boats carried the wearied troops over the broad river behind which they found refuge.
Most of the victors meanwhile lay asleep in the fields north of Winchester, but others had gone back to the town and were making an equitable division of the Northern stores among the different regiments.
Harry and Dalton were sent with those who went to the town.

On their way Harry saw St.Clair and Langdon lying under an apple tree, still and white.

He thought at first they were dead, but stopping a moment he saw their chests rising and falling with regular motion, and he knew that they were only sleeping.

The whiteness of their faces was due to exhaustion.
Feeling great relief he rode on and entered the exultant town.

He marked many of the places that he had known before, the manse where the good minister lived, the churches and the colonnaded houses, in more than one of which he had passed a pleasant hour.
Here Harry saw people that he knew.


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