It was the last day of April and Harry, sent to the front, saw Ashby drive in all the Northern cavalry.

When he returned with the news Jackson instantly lifted up his whole division and marched by the flank through the hills, leaving Ewell with his men to occupy Banks in front.

The mind of the "thinker" was working, and Harry knew it as he rode behind him.

He did not know what this movement meant, but he had full confidence in the man who led them.
Yet the marching, like all the other marching they had done, was of the hardest.

The ground, torn by hoofs, cannon wheels and the feet of marching men, was a continuous quagmire.