At night of the next day Harry was sitting by the camp of the Invincibles, having received a brief leave of absence from the staff, and he detailed the news to his eager friends.
"General Jackson is stripping again for battle," he said to Colonel Leonidas Talbot and Lieutenant-Colonel Hector St.Hilaire.

"He's sent all the sick and wounded across a ferry to Staunton, and he's dispatched his prisoners and captured stores by another road.

So he has nothing left but men fit for battle." "Which includes me," said St.Clair proudly, showing his left shoulder from which the bandage had been taken, "I'm as well as ever." "Men get well fast with Stonewall Jackson," said Colonel Talbot.

"I'll confess to you lads that I thought it was all up with us there in the lower valley, when we were surrounded by the masses of the enemy, and I don't see yet how we got here." "But we are here, Leonidas," said Lieutenant-Colonel Hector St.Hilaire, "and that's enough for us to know." "Right, Hector, old friend.

It's enough for us to know.