He was still watching intently through his glasses.
"The enemy is up and alert," whispered St.Clair to Harry.

"I judge that these are Western men used to sleeping with their eyes open." "Like as not a lot of them are mountain West Virginians," said Harry.
"They are strong for the North, and it's likely, too, that they're the men who have discovered Jackson's advance." "And they mean to make it warm for us.

Listen to those guns! It's hard shooting aiming at men on heights, but it shows what they could do on level ground." Jackson presently retired with his officers, and Harry, parting from his friends of the Invincibles, went with him.

Back among the ridges all the troops were under arms, the weary ones having risen from their blankets which were now tied in rolls on their backs.

They had not yet been able to bring the artillery up the steeps.