There were Colonel Leonidas Talbot and Lieutenant-Colonel Hector St.Hilaire on horseback, looking very proud and eager.

Further away were Langdon and St.Clair also mounted, but Harry could not see the expression on their faces.
"Tell Colonel Talbot to have the charge sounded and then to attack with all his might," said Jackson to his young aide.
Harry carried the order eagerly and rejoined the general at once.

The drums of the Invincibles beat the charge, and on both sides of them the drums of other regiments played the same tune.

Then the drum-beat was lost in that wild and thrilling shout, the rebel yell, more terrible than the war-whoop of the Indians, and the whole brigade rushed forward in a vast half-circle that enclosed the village between the two horns of the curve.
The scattered firing of the pickets was lost in the great shout of the South, and, by the time the Northern sentinels could give the alarm to their main body, the rush of Jackson's men was upon them, clearing out the woods and fields in a few instants and driving the Union horsemen in swift flight northward.
Harry kept close to his general.

He saw a spark of fire shoot from the blue eye, and the nostrils expand.