It was just loss of blood that troubled me for the time." "I hear," said Langdon, "that the two Yankee armies are to join soon.
The Massanuttons won't be between them much longer, and then they'll have only one of the forks of the river to cross before they fall upon each other's breasts and weep with joy.

Harry, it seems to me that we're always coming to a fork of the Shenandoah.

How many forks does it have anyhow ?" "Only two, but the two forks have forks of their own.

That's the reason we're always coming to deep water and by the same token the Yankees are always coming to it, too, which is a good thing for us, as we get there first, when the bridges are there, and when the Yankees come they are gone." But not one of these boys understood the feeling in the Northern armies.

Late the day before a messenger from Shields had got through the Massanuttons to Fremont, and had informed him that an easy triumph was at hand.