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SEEKING BRAGG.
They took Dick to the house of his relatives, the Careys, in Danville, and in a few days he learned the sequel of that sudden and terrible storm of death at Perryville.

Buell had gathered all his forces in the night, and in the morning had intended to attack again, but the Confederate army was gone, carrying with it vast stores of supplies that it had gathered on the way.
The rains, too, had come.

They had begun the morning after the battle, and they poured for days.

In the southeast, among the mountains toward which Bragg had turned the head of his army, the roads were quagmires.
Nevertheless he had toiled on and was passing through Cumberland Gap.
Buell had gone in the other direction toward the southwest, and then came the news that he was relieved of his command, and that Rosecrans would take his place.
Dick felt the call of the trumpet.