Nobody could forget those precious two days lost before the battle.

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191 had put all the cards in their hands, but the commander had not played them.
"I feel that we've really failed," said Warner, as they sat beside a camp fire.

"The Southerners certainly fought like demons, but we ought to have been there long before Jackson came, and we ought to have whipped them, even after Jackson did come." "But we didn't," said Pennington, "and so we've got the job to do all over again.

You know, George, we're bound to win." "Of course, Frank; but while we're doing it the country is being ripped to pieces.