36/54 There's Shields on the other side of the river with whom we have to deal. Do you know, George, that all the time we've been sitting here, watching that battle in front of us, I've been afraid we'd hear the booming of the guns on the other side of the river, telling that Shields was up." "We scorched their faces so badly there in Cross Keys that they must be hesitating. Lord, Harry, how old Stonewall plays with fire. To attack and defeat one army with the other only a few miles away must take nerves all of steel." "But if Ewell keeps on following Fremont he'll be too far away when we turn to deal with Shields." "But he won't go too far. There are the trumpets now recalling his army." The mellow notes were calling in the eager riflemen, who wished to continue the pursuit, but the army was not to retire. |