Let them fight down there.

It did not matter what they might do to one another.

A minute or two later he was ashamed of such thoughts.
Colonel Winchester, who had been to see General Banks, returned presently and told them that they would march again in half an hour.
"General Banks," he said with bitter irony, "is afraid that a powerful force of the rebels will gain his rear and that we shall be surrounded.
He ought to know.

He has had enough dealings with Jackson.

Outmaneuvered and outflanked again! Why can't we learn something ?" But he said this to the young officers only.