But it pleased him to see them sing and dance, and he found no wrong in it, although he could not have done it himself.
Captain Morton noticed Harry's close attention and he read his mind.
"They surprised me, too, at first," he said, "but they're fine soldiers, and they've put cheer into this army many a time when it needed it most.

Taylor, their commander, is a West Pointer and he's got them into wonderful trim.

They're well clothed and well shod.

They never straggle and they're just about the best marchers we have.

They'll soon be rated high among Jackson's foot cavalry." Harry left the Acadians with reluctance, and when he made the round of the camp General Ewell, who had finished the conference, told him that he would have no message to send that night to Jackson.