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THE MOUNTAIN BATTLE.
General Jackson and several of his senior officers were examining the valley with glasses, but Harry, with eyes trained to the open air and long distances, could see clearly nearly all that was going on below.
He saw movement among the masses of men in blue, and he saw officers on horseback, galloping along the banks of the river.

Then he saw cannon in trenches with their muzzles elevated toward the heights, and he knew that the Union troops must have had warning of Jackson's coming.

And he saw, too, that the officers below also had glasses through which they were looking.
There was a sudden blaze from the mouth of one of the cannon.

A shell shot upward, whistling and shrieking, and burst far above their heads.
Harry heard pieces of falling metal striking on the rocks behind them.
The mountains sent back the cannon's roar in a sinister echo.
A second gun flashed and again the shell curved over their heads.
But Jackson paid no heed.