Fremont to his right on the slopes of the Alleghanies had 25,000 men; there were other strong detachments under Milroy and Schenck, and he had 17,000 men under his own eye.

So he was hesitating while the days were passing and Jackson growing stronger.
"I suppose the nature of the country helps us a lot," said Harry as he looked up at the Massanuttons, following Sherburne's pointing saber.
"It does, and we need help," said Sherburne.

"Even as it is they would have been pushing upon us if it hadn't been for the cavalry and the artillery.

Every time a detachment advanced we'd open up on it with a masked battery from the woods, and if pickets showed their noses too close horsemen were after them in a second.

We've had them worried to death for days and days, and when they do come in force Old Jack will have something up his sleeve." "I wonder," said Harry..