It was an advantage that the South had over the North in a mighty war, waged in a country covered then mostly with forest and cut by innumerable rivers and creeks, that her sons were familiar with such conditions, while many of those of the North, used to life in the cities, were at a loss, when the great campaigns took them into the wilderness.
Both he and Dalton, relying upon this knowledge, crept a little closer, but they stopped and lay very close, when they saw a man advancing to a hillock, carrying under his arm a bundle which they took to be rockets.
"Signals," whispered Dalton.

"You just watch, Harry, and you'll see 'em answered from the eastward." The officer on the summit of the hillock sent up three rockets, which curved beautifully against the blue heavens, then sank and died.

Far to the eastward they saw three similar lights flame and die.
"How far away would you say those answering rockets were ?" whispered Harry.
"It's hard to say about distances in the moonlight, but they may be three or four miles.

I take it, Harry, that they are sent up by the Northern main force." "So do I, but we've got to get actual evidence in words, or we've got to see this army.

I'm afraid to go back to General Jackson with anything less.