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The Scouts of Stonewall

CHAPTER XV
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You'll find them working together as smooth as silk.

Ah, here we go again!" "Then if it's as you say I suppose it's all up with McClellan, and I needn't trouble my mind about the matter any more.

Hereafter I'll just go ahead and obey orders." The words were light, but there was no frivolity in the minds of the three.

Despite the many battles through which they had already gone their hearts were beating hard just then, while that roaring was going on on the horizon, and they knew that a great battle was at hand.
Lee and his staff rode toward the battle, and then, to the amazement of his men, Jackson led his army into the deep woods away from the sound of the thundering guns which had been calling to them so incessantly.

Harry was mystified and the general vouchsafed no word, even to his own staff.
They marched on through woods, across fields, along the edges of swamps, and that crash of battle grew fainter behind them, but never died out.
"What do you think it means ?" Harry whispered to Dalton.
"Don't know.


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