Ponds made newly by the rains stood everywhere.

Often it required many horses and men to drag a cannon out of the mud.

The junior officers, and finally those of the highest rank, leaped from their horses and gave aid.

Jackson himself carried boughs and stones to help make a road.
Despite the utmost possible exertions the army could make only five miles in a single day and at the approach of night it flung itself upon the ground exhausted.
"I call this the Great Muddy Army," said St.Clair, ruefully to Harry, as he surveyed his fine uniform, now smeared over with brown liquid paste.
"It might have been worse," said Langdon.

"Suppose we had fallen in a quicksand and had been swallowed up utterly.