There must be no baggage, just food and ammunition.

I told 'em that when we joined General Jackson we'd have nothing to do but eat and fight." He seemed now to be speaking to himself rather than to Harry, and the boy said nothing.

Ewell, relapsing into silence, urged his horse to a gallop and the staff perforce galloped, too.

Such a pace soon brought them to the camp of the second army, and as they rode past the pickets Harry heard the sound of stringed music.
"The Cajuns," said one of the staff, a captain named Morton.

Harry did not know what "Cajuns" meant, but he was soon to learn.