Advancing where, from what and when?
There is no Argus to tell.

The country supports a fairly numerous population, but it hasn't a single kind or informing word for us.

Is Stonewall Jackson going to drop from the sky, which rumor says is his favorite method of approach ?" "He's usin' the solid ground this time, anyway," said Sergeant Daniel Whitley.

"I've been eight miles farther south, an' if I didn't see cavalry comin' along the skirt of a ridge, then my eyes ain't any friends of mine.

Then I came through a little place of not more'n five houses.