[The Scouts of Stonewall by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Scouts of Stonewall CHAPTER XV 30/46
Then they heard the note of a bugle in front of them and Jackson with his staff rode forward near a little church called Walnut Grove, where Lee and his staff sat on their horses waiting.
Harry noticed with pride how all the members of Lee's staff crowded forward to see the renowned Jackson. It was his general upon whom so many were looking, but there was curiosity among Stonewall's men, too, about Lee.
As Harry drew back a little while the two generals talked, he found himself again with the officers of the Invincibles. "He has grown gray since we were with him in Mexico, Hector," he heard Colonel Leonidas Talbot say to Lieutenant-Colonel Hector St.Hilaire. "Yes, Leonidas, grayer but stronger.
What a brow and eye!" St.Clair and Langdon, who had never seen Lee before, were eager. "Is he the right man for Old Jack to follow, Harry ?" asked Happy Tom. "I don't think there's any doubt of it, Happy.
I saw how they agreed the first time they met, and you can see it now.
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