This indicates a general retreat southward, does it not ?" "I think so, sir.

General Jackson has said nothing, but I know that orders have been sent to all our detachments to draw in.

He must have some plan of cutting his way through toward the south.

What do you think, Colonel St.Hilaire ?" "It must be so," replied Lieutenant-Colonel Hector St.Hilaire, "but how he will do it is beyond me.

When I look around at all these blue mountains, Leonidas, it seems to me that we're enclosed by living battlements." "Or that Jackson is like the tiger in the bush, surrounded by the beaters." "Yes, and sometimes it's woe to the beaters when they come too near." Harry dropped back with his younger friends who were by no means of sad demeanor.