They took a pride in this defiance of nature as well as man.

They could endure cold and hunger and weariness as they would endure battle, when it came.

They went on thus three days, almost without food and shelter.

Higher among the hills the snow sometimes beat upon them in a hurricane, and at night the winds howled as if they had come down fresh from the Arctic.
The spirits of the young troops, after rising, fell again, and their feet dragged.

Jackson, always watching, noticed it.